People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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 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
I think we don't do a service to dialogue between science and faith to characterize sincere people by calling them names. That… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It can be consoling to think your children are in heaven. You have got to understand that that doesn't make it true.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion is a powerful weapon that can be used because it persuades people to do things. And thus it can be used… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't do formal debates, because formal debates where you have two people up on a stage in equal status, and each… — 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'm afraid the Internet is filled with people using really very intemperate language. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My last vestige of 'hands off religion' respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11, 2001, followed by the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think that [Jay] Gould's separate compartments was a purely political ploy to win middle-of-the-road religious people to the science camp. But… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I find that religion really does motivate people to do horrible things because they have this passionate faith in whatever their religion… — 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
What I am skeptical about is the idea that whatever wonderful revelation does come in the science of the future, it will… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible… — 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
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
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
I am passionate about truth and passionate about clarity, and I don't regard myself as particularly militant or aggressive. I simply wish… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Earlier than about 10,000 years ago, all human populations were hunter gatherers. Soon, probably none will be. Those not extinct will be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism . — 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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