If we say that religion is a virus, then why isn't science a virus? — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default. — 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
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
Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“[Science] works! Planes fly. Cars drive. Computers compute. If you base medicine on science, you cure people. If you base the design… — 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
If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Science doesn't have all the answers, but it is good at spotting the important questions when they are camouflaged against a background… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The efforts of apologists to find genuinely distinguished modern scientists who are religious have an air of desperation, generating the unmistakably hollow… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they're about different things, science is about the way the world works… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Chaos theory, a more recent invention, is equally fertile ground for those with a bent for abusing sense. It is unfortunately named,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be… — 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
There is something wrong with using faith - belief without evidence - as a political weapon. I wouldn't say there is something… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Prediction in a complex world is a chancy business. Every decision that a survival machine takes is a gamble, and it is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite possibility that we are totally alone,… — 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
“Similarly, we can all agree that science's entitlement to advise us on moral values is problematic, to say the least. but does… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“... the reason why we find some things intuitively easy to grasp and others hard, is that our brains are themselves evolved… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I would like people to appreciate science in the same way they appreciate the arts. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I am passionate about the truth. Passion is very different from fundamentalism.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Hijacking by pseudoscience and bad science fiction is a threat to our legitimate sense of wonder.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I find many of answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists. — 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
![“[Science] works! Planes fly. Cars drive. Computers compute. If you base medicine on science, you cure people. If you base the design of planes on science, they fly. If you base the design of rockets on science, they reach the moon. It works... bitches.” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/885/richard-dawkins-115_computers_science-works-planes-fly-cars-drive-comp_561441.jpg)
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