There is a tendency for people to say evolution is only a theory. That is inappropriate. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“If you think you understand quantum theory . . . you don’t understand quantum theory.’*” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I've always been antagonistic to any naïve application of the selfish gene theory to politics. Some people have attempted to suggest that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics, that brilliantly successful flagship theory of modern science, is deeply mysterious and hard to understand. Eastern mystics have always been… — 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 evidence for evolution is so compelling that the only way to save the creation theory is to assume that God deliberately… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Chaos theory, a more recent invention, is equally fertile ground for those with a bent for abusing sense. It is unfortunately named,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution is a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen's use of language, it's a… — 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
People sometimes try to score debating points by saying, Evolution is only a theory. That is correct, but it's important to understand… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“My main reason for scepticism about the Huxley/Sagan theory is that the human brain is demonstrably eager to see faces in random… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science may be weird and incomprehensible--more weird and less comprehensible than any theology--but science works. It gets results. It can fly you… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. We shouldn't be too… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
As my colleague, the physical chemist Peter Atkins, puts it, we must be equally agnostic about the theory that there is a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Physicists have come up with other explanations. One is to say that these six constants are not free to vary. Some unified… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an… — 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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