It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything. — 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
In two senses: One is that you cannot go on the street and shout that you are an atheist, the other is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is an attitude in the culture that says that everybody is entitled to their opinion. You got to respect their opinion.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them with the eternal and unquenchable… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could… — 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
Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“You can’t get away with saying, ‘If you try to stop me from insulting homosexuals it violates my freedom of prejudice.’ But… — 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
“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
Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it... — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I could easily believe that religion could enhance health and hence survival, and that therefore there could be indeed be literally Darwinian… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Christianity, just as much as Islam, teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don't have to make the case for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“but I suspect that for many people the main reason they cling to religion is not that it is consoling, but that… — 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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