All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is a tendency for people to say evolution is only a theory. That is inappropriate. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive? — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
"Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is a virtue to admit ignorance when you don't know, but not to wallow in ignorance as an end in itself.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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 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
Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests." — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Some people find clarity threatening. They like muddle, confusion, obscurity. So when somebody does no more than speak clearly it sounds threatening. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If I say that I am more interested in preventing the slaughter of large whales than I am in improving housing conditions… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The true scientific understanding of the nature of existence is so utterly fascinating; how could you not want people to share it?… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Most people understand that sexual lust has to do with propagating genes. Copulation in nature tends to lead to reproduction and so… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded… I fear that, if the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on… — 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
Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Issac should not be taken as literal fact. And the appropriate response is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you'd never be confident of things like 'My wife loves… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I would like people to appreciate science in the same way they appreciate the arts. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't think that it's up to government to dictate what people should wear. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think there could be a very large number who are creationists by default. Those are the people I want to reach. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think the world's always a better place if people are filled with understanding. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When I sign books, I get lines of people and what they usually say is: "Thank you. You have changed my life."… — 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
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