Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to have the thought police going to people's homes, dictating what they teach their children. I don't want to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I find that religion really does motivate people to do horrible things because they have this passionate faith in whatever their religion… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Faith is the lack of evidence, and it shouldn't be that difficult to convince people that the right reason to believe something… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a… — 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
Christianity, just as much as Islam, teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don't have to make the case for… — 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
