Richard Dawkins Quotes

As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.
Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.
At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.
Beauty arises out of human inspiration.
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.
Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.
Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.
Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was kind, but he took no prisoners when arguing with idiots.
Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far wider than anybody I know.
Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism.
Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.
Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.
Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.
Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments.
Don't feel embarrassed if you've never heard of William Lane Craig. He parades himself as a philosopher, but none of the professors of philosophy whom I consulted had heard his name, either.
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 got. Live it to the full.
Einstein was adamant in rejecting all ideas of a personal god.
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