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 great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham. — 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
“most of us happily disavow fairies, astrology and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, without first immersing ourselves in books of Pastafarian theology etc.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“But if science cannot answer some ultimate question, what makes anybody think that religion can? I suspect that neither the Cambridge nor… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“There's a kind of science defense lobby or evolution defense lobby in particular . They are mostly atheist, but they are desperately… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have… — 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
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion. — 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 is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. — 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
I think that [Paul] Bloom's approach - and others who take it - is not so much that there is a precise… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74%… — 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
“Religion, is a mistake of geography. If you where born in America you are Christan, if you where born in the middle… — 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
I find many of answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist. — 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
“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
My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Religion enjoys astonishing privileges in our societies, privileges denied to almost any other special interest group one can think of-and certainly denied… — 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
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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