What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Pope Francis seems to be a much nicer man than Pope Benedict, but I'm not sure that his views on things that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a… — 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
Faith is the lack of evidence, and it shouldn't be that difficult to convince people that the right reason to believe something… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I do object to the assumption that anything that might be outside of nature is ruled out of the conversation. That's an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you are offended by reading views that disagree with yours, then yes, you will be offended. However, it is not gratuitously… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I personally would go further and say that, if your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The gravitational constant, if it were off by one part in a hundred million million, then the expansion of the universe after… — 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
The idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view.… — 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
...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of… — 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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