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
Part of the appeal was that Medawar was not only a Nobel Laureate, but he seemed like a Nobel Laureate; he was… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by… — 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
Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out… — 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
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
My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default. — 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
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
I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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
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
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
Gould carried the art of bending over backward to positively supine lengths. Why shouldn't we comment on God, as scientists? ... A… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think that's the mother and father of all cop-outs. It's an honest scientific quest to discover where this apparent improbability comes… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody… — 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
