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 Power
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? Richard Dawkins Respect
It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself. Richard Dawkins Wisdom
I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology. Richard Dawkins Technology
Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam. Richard Dawkins Learning
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory. Richard Dawkins Religion
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. Richard Dawkins Religion
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. Richard Dawkins Religion
I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as we went walking the country, I was constantly being exposed to a natural history sort of knowledge. Richard Dawkins Knowledge
If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed. Richard Dawkins Religion
I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history. Richard Dawkins History
Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that. Richard Dawkins Religion
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Richard Dawkins Religion
To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham. Richard Dawkins Religion
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. Richard Dawkins Religion
The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't. Richard Dawkins Religion
You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions. Richard Dawkins Religion