“ You could give a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world. You also c… Richard Dawkins
“ Either blasphemy is a victimless crime or its victim is powerful enough to take care of himself without any help from you. 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
“ Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works. Richard Dawkins
“ Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. Richard Dawkins
“ It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fund… Richard Dawkins
“ Fundamentalist religion is hell-bent on ruining the scientific education of countless thousands of innocent, well-meaning, eager young minds. Non-fundamentalist, sensible religion may not be doing tha… Richard Dawkins
“ There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as fu… Richard Dawkins
“ If a curiously selective plague came along and killed all people of intermediate height, 'tall' and 'short' would come to have just as precise a meaning as 'bird' or 'mammal'. The same is true of huma… Richard Dawkins
“ A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles, I am now about to mix the two together. According to the above, the… Richard Dawkins
“ The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive,… Richard Dawkins
“ We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. Richard Dawkins
“ …the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe th… Richard Dawkins
“ By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. Richard Dawkins
“ None of us will have forgotten that lesson. What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them: education in the true sense, very different from today's assessment-mad exam cultur… Richard Dawkins
