“I know that not all my readers like my digressions, but the research that has been done on Caenorhabditis elegans is such… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What I am skeptical about is the idea that whatever wonderful revelation does come in the science of the future, it will… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch… — 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
You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.'… — 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
Professor Challenger, Conan Doyle's science hero, was a sort of irascible man constantly bellowing at people, so he was a little bit… — 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
As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics, that brilliantly successful flagship theory of modern science, is deeply mysterious and hard to understand. Eastern mystics have always been… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“on page 96 of my hero Peter Medawar’s book The Limits of Science: ‘I regret my disbelief in God and religious answers… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all. Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The very large brain that humans have, plus the things that go along with it - language, art, science - seemed to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science may be weird and incomprehensible--more weird and less comprehensible than any theology--but science works. It gets results. It can fly you… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Certainly science should continue to see whether we can find evidence for multiverses that might explain why our own universe seems to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations… — 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
People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
[Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off. Note : Dawkins was quoting a former editor of New… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use, and that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Again, it is belief without evidence. In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“A herp is simply the kind of animal studied by a herpetologist, and that is a pretty lame way to define an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think that [Jay] Gould's separate compartments was a purely political ploy to win middle-of-the-road religious people to the science camp. But… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“...none of us will have forgotten that lesson. What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them:… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and… — 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
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I'm not so fond of the sort of science fiction that isn't really science fiction but is sometimes thought to be -… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Despite the Great Chain of Being's traditional ranking of humans between animals and angels, there is no evolutionary justification for the common… — 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
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
“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
“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
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
“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
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
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
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
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
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
We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
![“[Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose with every new piece of evidence in support of evolution. Taking offense is all they've got left.” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f50/richard-dawkins-115_atheism_creationists-have-lost-in-the-courts-of_833543.jpg)
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