Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you think about it, 534 members of the U.S. Congress cannot all be religious. That's just statistical nonsense. Many of them… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When the ancestors of the cheetah first began pursuing the ancestors of the gazelle, neither of them could run as fast as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of them is in any… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The interesting question would be whether there's a Darwinian process, a kind of selection process whereby some memes are more likely to… — 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
I don't do formal debates, because formal debates where you have two people up on a stage in equal status, and each… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he… — 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
