I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours. — 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
There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You can legally lie about the real world to your heart's content, but until some human being is materially damaged, nobody will… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Don't kid yourself that you're going to live again after you're dead; you're not. Make the most of the one life you've… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Don't feel embarrassed if you've never heard of William Lane Craig. He parades himself as a philosopher, but none of the professors… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he… — 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
The very large brain that humans have, plus the things that go along with it - language, art, science - seemed to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't do formal debates, because formal debates where you have two people up on a stage in equal status, and each… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you think about it, 534 members of the U.S. Congress cannot all be religious. That's just statistical nonsense. Many of them… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
From a Darwinian perspective, it is clear what pain is doing. It's a warning: 'Don't do that again.' If you burn yourself,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is interesting - you find in the United States, there is a kind of anti-education hostility. It's the sort of Sarah… — 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
