The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“There is something breathtakingly condescending, as well as inhumane, about the sacrificing of anyone, especially children, on the altar of 'diversity' and… — 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
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
The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It's almost as though Saint Paul… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is time to stop the mealy-mouthed euphemisms: 'Nationalists', 'Loyalists', 'Communities', 'Ethnic Groups', 'Cultures', 'Civilizations'. Religions is the word you need. Religions… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private… — 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
“Imagine members of an art appreciation society pleading in court that they ‘believe’ they need a hallucinogenic drug in order to enhance… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I hope nobody is seriously suggesting that we get our morals from scripture because if we did we'd be stoning people for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“My main reason for scepticism about the Huxley/Sagan theory is that the human brain is demonstrably eager to see faces in random… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In other words Luke's story is historically impossible and internally inconsistent. He lied to fudge the fulfillment of Micah's prophesy and to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you listen to two people who are arguing about something, and they each of them have passionate faith that they're right,… — 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
“on page 96 of my hero Peter Medawar’s book The Limits of Science: ‘I regret my disbelief in God and religious answers… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Isaac Asimov’s remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: ‘Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“look carefully at any region of the world where you find intractable enmity and violence between rival groups today. I cannot guarantee… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“As the Nobel Prize-winning American physicist Steven Weinberg said, ‘Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Something has shifted in the intervening decades. It has shifted in all of us, and the shift has no connection with religion.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Race does not come into it. It is pure religion and culture. Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
They are either people of faith who have lost their faith from reading my books, or they are people who had already… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Segregated schools. Children are educated, again often from a very early age, with members of a religious in-group and seperately from children… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're… — 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 am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“We have names for people who have many beliefs for which there is no rational justification. When their beliefs are extremely common… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Labelling of children. Children are described as 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' etc. from an early age, and certainly far too early… — 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
Francis [Collins] keeps saying things like "From the perspective of a believer." Once you buy into the position of faith, then suddenly… — 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
THE MAJORITY of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“We are talking about a bet, remember, and Pascal wasn't claiming that his wager enjoyed anything but very long odds. Would you… — 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
I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout -… — 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
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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![“I think that [Paul] Bloom's approach - and others who take it - is not so much that there is a precise genetic basis to faith. But there is a genetic basis to a psychological predisposition that manifests itself as faith and religion under the right conditions.” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d34/richard-dawkins-115_approach_i-think-that-paul-bloom-s-approach-and-o_497908.jpg)
![“Francis [Collins] keeps saying things like "From the perspective of a believer." Once you buy into the position of faith, then suddenly you find yourself losing all of your natural skepticism and your scientific - really scientific - credibility. I'm sorry to be so blunt.” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/49f/richard-dawkins-115_believer_francis-collins-keeps-saying-things-like_2803401.jpg)
