Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Gaps, by default in the mind of the creationist, are filled by God.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My mind is open to the most wonderful range of future possibilities, which I cannot even dream about. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged… — 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
Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
With so many mind-bytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of… — 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
There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
An intelligent couple can read their Darwin and know that the ultimate reason for their sexual urges is procreation. They know that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Not to grow up properly is to retain our 'caterpillar' quality from childhood (where it is a virtue) into adulthood (where it… — 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… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's… — 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
I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about what's true, I care about evidence, I care about evidence as the reason for knowing what is true. It is true that I come across rather passionate sometimes - and that's because I am passionate about the truth...… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter… — 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
