Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Atheism is a moral position - a rather rigid one, if you've ever read the opinions of its highest-profile espousers, Christopher Hitchens… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I would challenge the statement that my scientific instincts are any less rigorous than [Richard Dawkins]. The difference is that my presumption… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My dad was a slightly stricter version of Richard Dawkins. The worldview was that there are idiots out there who believe in… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I'm a closeted nerd. I studied Richard Dawkins. I watched every lecture. He's sort of the leading scientific atheist of our time.… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
Much as I like and admire Richard Dawkins, I do think that to call a book 'The God Delusion' is very worrying… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is pathetic to the point of non-being. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
“One of Richard Dawkins’s main God Delusion arguments is that, if God created everything, we would have to ask who created God.… — John C. Lennox Copy Share Image
I don't want my work or me, as a person, to be held up as a paradigm because, as Richard Dawkins knows,… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
“Bill Maher, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have all been frustrated by this question: Why is the Left refusing to… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
“I’ve often wondered how the term “'New Atheism”' gained such currency. It is a misnomer. There is nothing new about nonbelief. All… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“If you want to know why the “new atheists” like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Atkins sell so many books, the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Richard Dawkins says he can't be sure God doesn't exist. Well, you know what I do when I'm not sure about something?… — Frank J. Fleming Copy Share Image
“She made amazing artwork. While I focused on the absurd, trying to make the strangest juxtapositions possible, her work was delicate and… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The question is: exactly how did life get here? Was it by natural selection and random mutation or was it by something… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Well, PZ Myers, Jen McCreight, Phil Plait, Amanda Marcotte, Greg Laden, Melissa McEwan and others have all already said it, but I… — Rebecca Watson Copy Share Image
“We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Linda continued stubbornly, “Evolution can’t be true, because if humans evolved from apes, then why are there still apes?” “Frankly, Linda, it… — Diogenes of Mayberry Copy Share Image
“Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, for example, might be a bit less certain in his gloomy assessment of human nature: “Be warned that… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“The key point is not, as is commonly but wrongly believed, that the empirical investigation of the natural world made or makes… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“The most extensive and sustained exploration of the world, and the mightiest monument of collective wondering, is, of course, science. Richard Dawkins… — Raymond Tallis Copy Share Image
“A second point that caught my attention was that the very persons who insist upon keeping religion and science separate are eager… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Among the required reading for all PUAs were books on evolutionary theory: The Red Queen by Matt Ridley, The Selfish Gene by… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
“A saving grace of the human condition (if I may phrase it like that) is a sense of humor. Many writers and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I simply would not accede to being forced into this, and would frequently be kept out of classes because of irreverent comments… — Richard E. Leakey Copy Share Image
Far too many scientists, including my good friend Richard Dawkins, present science as the truth and present it as factually correct. And… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“As I was passing this man on the street, he looked at me, snarled, and gave me the finger. What was going… — A.J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Richard Dawkins may have phrased it most pungently when he argued that everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The funny thing is if in England, you ask a man in the street who the greatest living Darwinian is, he will… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
I didn't study science beyond high school level, but I'd been reading a lot of science books by people like Richard Dawkins,… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Faith is like a mental illness,” Richard Dawkins has said, “a great cop out, the excuse to evade the need to think… — Mark Clark Copy Share Image
“Richard Dawkins and his followers have recycled the theory of evolution not as a biological theory but as a theory of everything… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Atheism Explained is a gem. It is clear, informative, well-argued, provocative, often witty, and unfailingly interesting. David Ramsay Steele ranges over so… — Jeremy Shearmur Copy Share Image
“More praise for The Demon-Haunted World “As I close this eloquent and fascinating book, I recall the final chapter title from one… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image