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. – Richard Dawkins
The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no. – Richard Dawkins
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture. – 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
I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn’t going to change their mind. – Richard Dawkins
You can’t even begin to understand biology, you can’t understand life, unless you understand what it’s all there for, how it arose – and that means evolution. – Richard Dawkins
If you read Islamic creationist literature, it’s pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature. – Richard Dawkins
There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a scientist, and not an idiot. – Richard Dawkins
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans. – Richard Dawkins
Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of us have had experiences which are verging on hallucination. It shows the power of the brain to knock up illusions. – Richard Dawkins
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? – Richard Dawkins
There’s a mystical strain in every country, and eclipses are likely to bring that out. – Richard Dawkins
There are many very educated people who are religious, but they’re not creationists. – Richard Dawkins
Just as I wouldn’t expect a gynecologist to have a debate with somebody who believes in the Stork-theory of reproduction, I won’t do debates with Young Earth creationists. – Richard Dawkins
A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without. – 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
The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost any measure of civilised attainment, from Nobel prize-counts on down, the U.S. leads the world by miles. – Richard Dawkins
I’m a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims. – Richard Dawkins
I’m afraid the Internet is filled with people using really very intemperate language. – Richard Dawkins
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. – Richard Dawkins
