It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of… — 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
Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People sometimes try to score debating points by saying, Evolution is only a theory. That is correct, but it's important to understand… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Society bends over backward to be accommodating to religious sensibilities but not to other kinds of sensibilities. If I say something offensive… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To fill a world with ... religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
[Alternative medicine is defined as] that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested or consistently fail tests. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I had always been scrupulously careful to avoid the smallest suggestion of infant indoctrination, which I think is ultimately responsible for much… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise… — 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 am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. We are trying to understand how we have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and 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 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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