Nobody would seriously describe a tiny child as a Marxist child or an Anarchist child or a Post-modernist child. Yet children are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Only religious faith is a strong enough force to motivate such utter madness in otherwise sane and decent people.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the… — 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
We have this one life, let's enjoy it, let's live it to the full and don't get so worked up about don't… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“But how can there be a perversion of faith, if faith, lacking objective justification, doesn't have any demonstrable standard to pervert.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“If this dysfunctional family was the best Sodom had to offer by way of morals, some might begin to feel a certain… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
"Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am utterly fed up with the respect we have been brainwashed into bestowing upon religion. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you are in the camp I am, one place where science and faith could touch each other is in the investigation… — 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
