Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A guided missile corrects its trajectory as it flies, homing in, say, on the heat of a jet plane's exhaust. A great… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. We are trying to understand how we have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
So Occam's razor - Occam says you should choose the explanation that is most simple and straightforward - leads me more to… — 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
A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution is a very, very important idea. It is the explanation for all of life - a stunningly simple, yet powerful explanation.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are… — 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
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