We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I've always been very suspicious of the left-right dimension in politics. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest. — 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've always been antagonistic to any naïve application of the selfish gene theory to politics. Some people have attempted to suggest that… — 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
“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
How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“We’d be outraged if our government invested in expensive telescopes for the sole purpose of searching for orbiting teapots. But we can… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion has been a powerful weapon in the hands of governments, in the hands of priests, in the hands of kings who… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“These facts about today’s political climate in the United States, and what they imply, would have horrified Jefferson, Washington, Madison, Adams and… — 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, composed, revised, translated, distorted and ‘improved’ by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries.90 This may explain some of the sheer strangeness of the… — 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 around a major artery, then goes all the way back up again. It goes right past the larynx on the way down. All a decent designer would have to do is loop it off at that… — 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 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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