Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is great variation in brain power all the way from Einstien on one hand to Sarah Palin on the other. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I would like people to appreciate science in the same way they appreciate the arts. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you want to do bad things, science is the most powerful way to do them. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It would be really worrying if, as a Darwinian, it was impossible to think of ways in which our behavior could be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you look up at the Milky Way through the eyes of Carl Sagan, you get a feeling in your chest of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I find many of answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think it's misleading to use a word like 'God' in the way Einstein did. I'm sorry that Einstein did. I think… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If I were God wanting to make a human being, I would do it by a more direct way rather than by… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The evidence for evolution is so compelling that the only way to save the creation theory is to assume that God deliberately… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the… — 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… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I would like to find a way in which people in Saudi Arabia could learn that they can be something other than… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
An intelligent couple can read their Darwin and know that the ultimate reason for their sexual urges is procreation. They know that… — 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
If you're willing to answer yes to a God outside of nature, then there's nothing inconsistent with God on rare occasions choosing… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What are all of us but self-reproducing robots? We have been put together by our genes and what we do is roam… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Who are we to say that that was an odd way to do it? I don't think that it is God's purpose… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of… — 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
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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