It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If we say that religion is a virus, then why isn't science a virus? — 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
Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. — 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
