I just would like to say that over more than a quarter-century as a scientist and a believer, I find absolutely nothing… — 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
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In a designed economy there would be no trees, or certainly no very tall trees: no forests, no canopy. Trees are a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. Of course you can… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction. I like science fiction where there's a scientific lesson, for example -… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up… — 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
“The habit of questioning authority is one of the most valuable gifts that a book, or a teacher, can give a young… — 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
Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world. — 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
If we say that religion is a virus, then why isn't science a virus? — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Selection has favoured genes that cooperate with others. In the fierce competition for scarce resources, in the relentless struggle to eat other… — 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
Any teaching of falsehoods in science classes should certainly be identified and stopped by school inspectors. School inspectors should be looking at… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than 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
I want very much to communicate science to as wide an audience as possible, but not at a cost of dumbing down,… — 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
