Might Quotes by Richard Dawkins

Ironically, I originally wrote the tweet with Jews and thought, That might give offense. And so I thought I better change it.

— Richard Dawkins

Anybody who objects to cloning on principle has to answer to all the identical twins in the world who might be insulted…

— Richard Dawkins

People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals…

— Richard Dawkins

A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as…

— Richard Dawkins

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which…

— Richard Dawkins

Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

— Richard Dawkins

I remember at the age of six regaling my poor little sister with stories about the planets, and how far away they…

— Richard Dawkins

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch…

— Richard Dawkins

With so many mind-bytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are…

— Richard Dawkins

Granted, we may try to help our own family members because they share our DNA. Or help someone else in expectation that…

— Richard Dawkins

The interesting question would be whether there's a Darwinian process, a kind of selection process whereby some memes are more likely to…

— Richard Dawkins

It is interesting to ask whether there's any general reason why being religious might make you do nice things or indeed nasty…

— Richard Dawkins

The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its…

— Richard Dawkins

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that…

— Richard Dawkins

I personally would go further and say that, if your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the…

— Richard Dawkins

The popularity of the paranormal, oddly enough, might even be grounds for encouragement. I think that the appetite for mystery, the enthusiasm…

— Richard Dawkins

Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have…

— Richard Dawkins

If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding…

— Richard Dawkins

In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote…

— Richard Dawkins

An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that…

— Richard Dawkins

I've never heard of William Craig. A debate with him might look good on his resume, but it wouldn't look good on…

— Richard Dawkins

Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking…

— Richard Dawkins

A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them…

— Richard Dawkins

The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might…

— Richard Dawkins

The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of…

— Richard Dawkins

I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence.

— Richard Dawkins

Certainly science should continue to see whether we can find evidence for multiverses that might explain why our own universe seems to…

— Richard Dawkins

Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private…

— Richard Dawkins

One of the possible reasons why we might be good is that we're frightened, frightened of God. We want the reward in…

— Richard Dawkins

Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he…

— Richard Dawkins

You are born into a dangerous world, there are all sorts of ways in which you could die, and you need to…

— Richard Dawkins

It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means…

— Richard Dawkins

If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolution, you might find a fairly…

— Richard Dawkins

I do object to the assumption that anything that might be outside of nature is ruled out of the conversation. That's an…

— Richard Dawkins

The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the sins…

— Richard Dawkins