By being outside of nature, God is also outside of space and time. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“We will not go quietly away. If in the future that requires violence” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It is a commonplace that good historians don’t judge statements from past times by the standards of their own.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
God is an idea that people believe in and I spend time arguing with people that subscribe to that idea(man made idea). — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
DNA is ROM. It can be read millions of times over, but only written to once - when it is first assembled… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The state of Israel seems to owe its very existence to the American Jewish vote, while at the same time consigning the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Karen Owens has captured this witty little paradox in equally engaging verse: Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We frequently look into the future of mankind and see dangers. We see if we carry on doing what we are doing… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What Francis [Collins] was just saying about Genesis was, of course, a little private quarrel between him and his Fundamentalist colleagues. It… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Hence, at the moment of the creation of the universe, God could also have activated evolution, with full knowledge of how it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The fact that something is written down is persuasive to people not used to asking questions like: ‘Who wrote it, and when?’… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You could give Aristotle a tutorial and you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“We would not waste time saying so because nobody, so far as I know, worships teapots;fn4 but, if pressed, we would not… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The nineteenth-century connection is now clear. The nineteenth century is the last time when it was possible for an educated person to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“We can now assert with confidence that the theory that the Earth moves round the Sun not only is right for our… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Was there to be any end to the gradual improvement in the techniques and artifices used by the replicators to ensure their… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I didn't know children were expected to have literary heroes, but I certainly had one, and I even identified with him at… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What I am skeptical about is the idea that whatever wonderful revelation does come in the science of the future, it will… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing… — 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 am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is time to stop the mealy-mouthed euphemisms: 'Nationalists', 'Loyalists', 'Communities', 'Ethnic Groups', 'Cultures', 'Civilizations'. Religions is the word you need. Religions… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The odd thing about tradition is, the longer it's been going, the more people seem to take it seriously - as though… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or complain that it is dull or barren… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the sins… — 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
![“What Francis [Collins] was just saying about Genesis was, of course, a little private quarrel between him and his Fundamentalist colleagues. It would be unseemly for me to enter in except to suggest that he'd save himself an awful lot of trouble if he just simply ceased to give them the time of day.” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/694/richard-dawkins-115_awful_what-francis-collins-was-just-saying-abo_3003968.jpg)
