To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'? — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly, relying on the words… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It's almost as though Saint Paul… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are people who try to get atheists to form a sort of atheist church and have atheist community singsongs and things.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Just as I wouldn't expect a gynecologist to have a debate with somebody who believes in the Stork-theory of reproduction, I won't… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think that people in the Bible Belt are far less monolithically religious than many people imagine. There are lots and lots… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an… — 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
