I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children. — 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 is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The fact that something is written down is persuasive to people not used to asking questions like: ‘Who wrote it, and when?’… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is a popular cliché ... which says that you cannot get out of computers any more than you have put in...,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Nowadays theologians aren't quite so straightforward as Paley. They don't point to complex living mechanisms and say that they are self-evidently designed… — 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