I think the important thing to learn is that we can retain a sentimental loyalty to the cultural and literary traditions of,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Why did God make tigers so good at catching prey, and at the same time make prey so good at getting away… — 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
I think from my point of view - I won't say it doesn't matter whether [Darwinian explanations] are right or wrong, it's… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The true scientific understanding of the nature of existence is so utterly fascinating; how could you not want people to share it?… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born… — 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
I think that's the mother and father of all cop-outs. It's an honest scientific quest to discover where this apparent improbability comes… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here… — 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
