There are sincere believers who interpret Genesis 1 and 2 in a very literal way that is inconsistent, frankly, with our knowledge… — 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
It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be… — 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
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
It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us… — 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
If God wanted to create life and create humans, it would be slightly odd that he should choose the extraordinarily roundabout way… — 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
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
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
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
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
