I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of… — 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
Molecular genetics can show off some surprising relationships like, for example, the close relationship of whales to hippopotamuses, which I think nobody… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a 'spark of life.' It… — 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
Steve Grand is the creator of what I think is the nearest approach to artificial life so far, and his first book,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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
I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain… — 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
I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think nobody would claim that random genetic drift is capable of producing adaptation, that is to say the illusion of design.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
One of the possible reasons why we might be good is that we're frightened, frightened of God. We want the reward in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It could be any of a billion Gods. It could be God of the Martians or of the inhabitants of Alpha Centauri.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Next time somebody tells you that something is true, why not say to them: 'What kind of evidence is there for that?'… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take… — 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
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
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
Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Scientists can have their judgment clouded by their professional aspirations. And the pure truth of faith, which you can think of as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin made arguably the greatest discovery any human has ever made. He was a man of great persistence. He wasn't probably… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Let our tribute to the dead be a new resolve: to respect people for what they individually think, rather than respect groups… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I speak as a private citizen and not as a representative of the Executive Branch of the United States government. The impression… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the… — 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
I think what attracts me about the Electric Monk is that it's such an eloquent example of the futility of belief for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think that [Jay] Gould's separate compartments was a purely political ploy to win middle-of-the-road religious people to the science camp. But… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think that a new kind of replicator has recently emerged on this very planet. It is staring us in the face.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The moral law is a reason to think of God as plausible - not just a God who sets the universe in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think that [Paul] Bloom's approach - and others who take it - is not so much that there is a precise… — 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
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
The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical… — 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
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
“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
“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
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
“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
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
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
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
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
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
We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
![“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 from. Now [Francis] Collins says, "Well, God did it. And God needs no explanation because God is outside all this." Well, what an incredible evasion of the…” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72d/richard-dawkins-115_cop_i-think-that-s-the-mother-and-father-of_3082551.jpg)
![“I think from my point of view - I won't say it doesn't matter whether [Darwinian explanations] are right or wrong, it's just sufficient in some cases, for me, to be able to say, Well, at least it's not totally implausible from a Darwinian point of view.” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ca/richard-dawkins-115_able_i-think-from-my-point-of-view-i-won-t-sa_2892244.jpg)
![“I think that [Jay] Gould's separate compartments was a purely political ploy to win middle-of-the-road religious people to the science camp. But it's a very empty idea. There are plenty of places where religion does not keep off the scientific turf.” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d7/richard-dawkins-115_camps_i-think-that-jay-gould-s-separate-compar_359975.jpg)
![“I think that [Paul] Bloom's approach - and others who take it - is not so much that there is a precise genetic basis to faith. But there is a genetic basis to a psychological predisposition that manifests itself as faith and religion under the right conditions.” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d34/richard-dawkins-115_approach_i-think-that-paul-bloom-s-approach-and-o_497908.jpg)
