It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents. Seize every opportunity to ram it home.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
THE MAJORITY of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“giving children something with which to surprise their parents is one of the greatest gifts a teacher can bestow.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Either Jesus had a father, or he didn't. The question is a scientific one, and scientific evidence, if any were available, would… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I guess there are some rights of parents with what they choose their children to learn, but I'm biased in favor of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults)… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“As a child, my wife hated her school and wished she could leave. Years later, when she was in her twenties, she… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“That is not a Muslim child, but a child of Muslim parents. That child is too young to know whether it is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There's a natural tendency for children to, in some sense, inherit the cultural values of their parents. I'm not against that, that's… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows… — 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
If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Atheists as well as theists unconsciously observe society’s convention that we must be especially polite and respectful to faith. And I never… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Out of all of the sects in the world, we notice an uncanny coincidence: the overwhelming majority just happen to choose the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It is often said, mainly by the 'no-contests', that although there is no positive evidence for the existence of God, nor is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Natural selection builds child brains with a tendency to believe whatever their parents and tribal elders tell them. Such trusting obedience is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults)… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults)… — 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
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
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
“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
“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
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
“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
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
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
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
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
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
We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
![“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/i/72d/richard-dawkins-115_cop_i-think-that-s-the-mother-and-father-of_3082551.jpg)
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