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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion. — Richard Dawkins

We have all been guilty of bending over backwards to be nice to an unworthy but powerful opponent, — Richard Dawkins

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker. — Richard Dawkins

Evolution has been observed. It's just that it hasn't been observed while it's happening. — Richard Dawkins

I've never heard of William Craig. A debate with him might look good on his resume, but it wouldn't look good on mine! — Richard Dawkins

Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree. — Richard Dawkins

Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue. — Richard Dawkins

I don't actually think 'The Selfish Gene' is a very good title. I think that's one of my worst titles. — Richard Dawkins

There's no point of having faith if you have evidence. — Richard Dawkins

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

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant. — Richard Dawkins

There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story. — Richard Dawkins

I think the world's always a better place if people are filled with understanding. — Richard Dawkins

'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment. — Richard Dawkins

The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous. — Richard Dawkins

There's a mystical strain in every country, and eclipses are likely to bring that out. — Richard Dawkins

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme. — Richard Dawkins

The chicken is only an egg's way for making another egg. — Richard Dawkins

Paul Davies's The Mind of God seems to hover somewhere between Einsteinian pantheism and an obscure form of deism - for — Richard Dawkins

It is raining DNA outside. — Richard Dawkins

Goodness is no part of the definition of the God Hypothesis, merely a desirable add-on. — Richard Dawkins

There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists. — Richard Dawkins

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive? — Richard Dawkins

If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse. — Richard Dawkins

What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views. — Richard Dawkins

Non-existent male? I suppose that, in the ditzily — Richard Dawkins

I'm always striving to do more. Whatever I accomplish, it's not enough. I don't get satisfied. — Brian Dawkins

There's never an end only a new beginning. — Ian Dawkins Moore

It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too. — Richard Dawkins

Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain's simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself. — Richard Dawkins

The higher one's intelligence or education level, the less one is likely to be religious or hold "beliefs" of any kind. — Richard Dawkins

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality — Richard Dawkins

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 haven't decided yet. — Richard Dawkins

I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate. — Terry Eagleton

I did a film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a woman playing the cello in the background. — Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist. — Simon Conway Morris

Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret. — Richard Dawkins

In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong answers. — Richard Dawkins

Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do have nothing to be proud of. — Richard Dawkins

The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity. — Richard Dawkins

Dawkins's result can only be obtained because of the element of intelligent design embedded in the whole experiment. — Michael A. Cremo

It's very important to try to inculcate into children moral rules, such as "do as you would be done by." — Richard Dawkins

frequently recommend Miller's book, Finding Darwin's God, — Richard Dawkins

The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two miracles. — Richard Dawkins

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true. — Richard Dawkins

You can legally lie about the real world to your heart's content, but until some human being is materially damaged, nobody will complain. — Richard Dawkins

As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian. — Richard Dawkins

I think I got hooked up because I try to do good things with the NBA, and they always want somebody who's notable and who's personable with people. — Darryl Dawkins

If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature. — Richard Dawkins

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered. — Richard Dawkins

You can never be absolutely certain that anything doesn't exist. But you can show that it's unlikely. — Richard Dawkins

Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just sucking up. — Richard Dawkins

I was never much bothered about moral questions like, 'How could there be a good God when there's so much evil in the world?' — Richard Dawkins

The supernatural is ubiquitous in children's entertainment, from Grimm and Hans Andersen to Disney and 'Harry Potter.' — Richard Dawkins

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression. — Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction. — Pope Benedict XVI

Notoriously, the United States is the most religious of the Western advanced nations. It's a bit mysterious why that is. — Richard Dawkins

Smolin's idea, expounded in The Life of the Cosmos, hinges — Richard Dawkins

The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans. — Richard Dawkins

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation. — Richard Dawkins

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion. — Richard Dawkins

I will not utter falsehoods but I have no objection to making meaningless statements. — Richard Dawkins

In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts. — Ernst Mayr

The most terrible wars of history, the two major wars of the century, have nothing to do with religions. — Richard Dawkins

We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed. — Richard Dawkins

We will not go quietly away. If in the future that requires violence — Richard Dawkins

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged. — Richard Dawkins

My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true. — Richard Dawkins

A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without. — Richard Dawkins

Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. — Richard Dawkins

The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle. — Richard Dawkins

giving children something with which to surprise their parents is one of the greatest gifts a teacher can bestow. — Richard Dawkins

People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design. — Richard Dawkins

The Bible may be an arresting and
poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give
your children to form their morals. — Richard Dawkins

Anyone can popularize science if he oversimplifies. — Richard Dawkins

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one. — Richard Dawkins

In the case of living machinery, the 'designer' is unconscious natural selection, the blind watchmaker. — Richard Dawkins

This person should have been aborted years ago. — Richard Dawkins

If we say that religion is a virus, then why isn't science a virus? — Richard Dawkins

All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though. — Richard Dawkins

It's about time we start criticizing faith. — Richard Dawkins

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood. — Richard Dawkins

It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate. — Richard Dawkins

I don't think that it's up to government to dictate what people should wear. — Richard Dawkins

Everyone you meet won't wish you success that's why you work for it and give your life your best. — Kia Marie Dawkins

We needn't bother with exactly what 'electric charge' means here. — Richard Dawkins

Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear. — Richard Dawkins

In the world of the extended phenotype, ask not how an animal's behaviour benefits its genes; ask instead whose genes it is benefiting. — Richard Dawkins

The child has no way of knowing what's good information. — Richard Dawkins

It's a difficult business, finding out what's true about the world, the universe. — Richard Dawkins

I can handle heckling on evolution because it's my own field. — Richard Dawkins

You know what I'm intrigued by? Like, space and wormholes and Stephen Hawking's theories and Richard Dawkins's theories. That's what I care about. — Peaches Geldof

There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out. — Richard Dawkins

I have not come up with anything original. It needs a better brain than mine! I have done what I can do in taking Dawkins' idea and extending it. — Susan Blackmore

I will never have my best season. — Brian Dawkins

One gene may be regarded as a unit that survives through a large number of successive individual bodies. — Richard Dawkins

It is our time, our task and our destiny - from Opoponax Dreams — Genieve Dawkins

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators. — Richard Dawkins

The reality is that your dreams pave the way for you. You just have to have the guts to follow them. — Kia Marie Dawkins

Why are genetic determinants thought to be any more ineluctable, or blame-absolving, than 'environmental' ones? — Richard Dawkins