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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
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
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 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
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
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 andpoetic 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
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
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
