Does religion fill a much needed gap? It is often said that there is a God-shaped gap in the brain which needs… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My God is not improbable to me. He has no need of a creation story for himself or to be fine-tuned by… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You are born into a dangerous world, there are all sorts of ways in which you could die, and you need to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Nobody would seriously describe a tiny child as a Marxist child or an Anarchist child or a Post-modernist child. Yet children are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against all intuition, that a chemical model need only predict… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think... — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is time to stop the mealy-mouthed euphemisms: 'Nationalists', 'Loyalists', 'Communities', 'Ethnic Groups', 'Cultures', 'Civilizations'. Religions is the word you need. Religions… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To me, the right approach is to say we are profoundly ignorant of these matters. We need to work on them. But… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think that's the mother and father of all cop-outs. It's an honest scientific quest to discover where this apparent improbability comes… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People who believe in God conclude there must have been a divine knob twiddler who twiddled the knobs of these half-dozen constants… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
![“I think that's the mother and father of all cop-outs. It's an honest scientific quest to discover where this apparent improbability comes from. Now [Francis] Collins says, "Well, God did it. And God needs no explanation because God is outside all this." Well, what an incredible evasion of the…” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/72d/richard-dawkins-115_cop_i-think-that-s-the-mother-and-father-of_3082551.jpg)
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