You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is an attitude in the culture that says that everybody is entitled to their opinion. You got to respect their opinion.… — 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
To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution is a very, very important idea. It is the explanation for all of life - a stunningly simple, yet powerful explanation.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We have sexual lust even though we know perfectly well that, because we're using contraception, it is not going to result in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is economics in biology, nothing is free, everything has to be paid for, there are costs as well as benefits to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You are born into a dangerous world, there are all sorts of ways in which you could die, and you need to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think that's the mother and father of all cop-outs. It's an honest scientific quest to discover where this apparent improbability comes… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding… — 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
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
Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing… — 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
![“I think from my point of view - I won't say it doesn't matter whether [Darwinian explanations] are right or wrong, it's just sufficient in some cases, for me, to be able to say, Well, at least it's not totally implausible from a Darwinian point of view.” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3ca/richard-dawkins-115_able_i-think-from-my-point-of-view-i-won-t-sa_2892244.jpg)
![“To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in it, he [Douglas Adams] mimed a wonderfully funny imitation of a puddle of water, fitting itself snugly into a depression in the ground, the depression uncannily being…” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a6f/richard-dawkins-115_conceit_to-illustrate-the-vain-conceit-that-the_2176499.jpg)
![“I think that's the mother and father of all cop-outs. It's an honest scientific quest to discover where this apparent improbability comes from. Now [Francis] Collins says, "Well, God did it. And God needs no explanation because God is outside all this." Well, what an incredible evasion of the…” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/72d/richard-dawkins-115_cop_i-think-that-s-the-mother-and-father-of_3082551.jpg)
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