All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If we say that religion is a virus, then why isn't science a virus? — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Religion can endanger the life of the pious individual, as well as the lives of others.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you are asking me if my more global purpose is a battle against religion, it is. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Absolutist morality doesn't have to come from religion but usually does. — 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
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
It is immoral to brand children with religion. 'This is a Catholic child.' 'That is a Muslim child.' I want everyone to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Atheists sometimes come across as a bit arrogant in this regard, and characterizing faith as something only an idiot would attach themselves… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god - from Ra to Shiva - in which he does not… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There may be some deep questions about the cosmos that are forever beyond science. The mistake is to think they are therefore… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The oldest of the three Abrahamic religions, and the clear ancestor of the other two, is Judaism: originally a tribal cult of… — 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
“And some scientists and other intellectuals are convinced—too eagerly in my view—that the question of God's existence belongs in the forever inaccessible… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as… — 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… — 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
If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had.… — 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
“I think that when you consider the beauty of the world and you wonder how it came to be what it is,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have. I merely give robust expression… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Here is another weird example of the privileging of religion. On 21 February 2006 the United States Supreme Court ruled, in accordance… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I have considered the impudent accusations of Mr Dawkins with exasperation at his lack of serious scholarship. He has apparently not read… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Out of all of the sects in the world, we notice an uncanny coincidence: the overwhelming majority just happen to choose the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It is a tedious cliché (and, unlike many clichés, it isn't even true) that science concerns itself with how questions, but only… — 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
