Seems Quotes by Richard Dawkins

When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.

— Richard Dawkins

Our subjective judgment of what seems like a good bet is irrelevant to what is actually a good bet.

— Richard Dawkins

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental…

— Richard Dawkins

All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.

— Richard Dawkins

Certainly science should continue to see whether we can find evidence for multiverses that might explain why our own universe seems to…

— Richard Dawkins

When we started out and we were talking about the origins of the universe and the physical constants, I provided what I…

— Richard Dawkins

So Occam's razor - Occam says you should choose the explanation that is most simple and straightforward - leads me more to…

— Richard Dawkins

The state of Israel seems to owe its very existence to the American Jewish vote, while at the same time consigning the…

— Richard Dawkins

The moral law is a reason to think of God as plausible - not just a God who sets the universe in…

— Richard Dawkins

I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not…

— Richard Dawkins

The odd thing about tradition is, the longer it's been going, the more people seem to take it seriously - as though…

— Richard Dawkins

Pope Francis seems to be a much nicer man than Pope Benedict, but I'm not sure that his views on things that…

— Richard Dawkins

Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point…

— Richard Dawkins

The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that…

— Richard Dawkins

Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects,…

— Richard Dawkins

I think we have got to start again and go right back to first principles. The argument I shall advance, surprising as…

— Richard Dawkins

There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And…

— Richard Dawkins

To me, the right approach is to say we are profoundly ignorant of these matters. We need to work on them. But…

— Richard Dawkins