Richard Dawkins Quotes

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.
What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?
A constellation is not an entity at all, not the kind of thing that Uranus, or anything else, can sensibly be said to 'move into.'
A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.
A good theory explains a lot but postulates little.
A guided missile corrects its trajectory as it flies, homing in, say, on the heat of a jet plane's exhaust. A great improvement on a simple ballistic shell, it still cannot discriminate particular targets. It could not zero in on a designated New York skyscraper if launched from as far away as Boston.
A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.
A triumph of consciousness-raising has been the homosexual hijacking of the word 'gay.'
A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.
All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are no fossils in the wrong place.
All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.
Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.
Any teaching of falsehoods in science classes should certainly be identified and stopped by school inspectors. School inspectors should be looking at science teachings to make sure they are evidence-based science.
Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly, relying on the words themselves to convey his meaning, without resorting to yelling.
As a liberal, I would hesitate to propose a blanket ban on any style of dress because of the implications for individual liberty and freedom of choice.
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