To fill a world with ... religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Either Jesus had a father, or he didn't. The question is a scientific one, and scientific evidence, if any were available, would… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion is a powerful weapon that can be used because it persuades people to do things. And thus it can be used… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the idea of designer babies… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion has been a powerful weapon in the hands of governments, in the hands of priests, in the hands of kings who… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In medieval times, the Church used to sell 'indulgences' for money. This amounted to paying for some number of days' remission from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.'… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the… — 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
