All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON” — 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
People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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
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
If we say that religion is a virus, then why isn't science a virus? — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religious people are atheists about all other gods, atheists only take it one god further. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Scientists can have their judgment clouded by their professional aspirations. And the pure truth of faith, which you can think of as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Our society, including the non-religious sector, has accepted the preposterous idea that it is normal and right to indoctrinate tiny children in… — 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 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
Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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
Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise… — 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
Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument. — 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
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
I think the important thing to learn is that we can retain a sentimental loyalty to the cultural and literary traditions 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
