I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist. — 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
There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A constellation is not an entity at all, not the kind of thing that Uranus, or anything else, can sensibly be said… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are quite a lot of YouTube clips of me that have gone viral. One that I think of is of a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The true scientific understanding of the nature of existence is so utterly fascinating; how could you not want people to share it?… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably… — 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
An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Does religion fill a much needed gap? It is often said that there is a God-shaped gap in the brain which needs… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently… — 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
