What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive? — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are quite a lot of YouTube clips of me that have gone viral. One that I think of is of a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In Britain, you don't usually learn about evolution until you are about 15. I should have thought that you should start at… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so. — 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
