I guess the Democrats have to pretend to be more pious than the Republicans because they are under suspicion of not being. – Richard Dawkins
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle. – Richard Dawkins
I’m quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music. – Richard Dawkins
Either Jesus had a father, or he didn’t. The question is a scientific one, and scientific evidence, if any were available, would be used to settle it. – Richard Dawkins
It doesn’t hurt my feeling when I get vilified by fundamentalist religious people. I’ve actually made comedy out of it. I’ve made light of that. – Richard Dawkins
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. – Richard Dawkins
What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of them is in any sense ancestral to any other; none of them is more primitive than any other. We are all modern races of exactly equal status, evolutionarily speaking. – Richard Dawkins
If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection. – Richard Dawkins
All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation. – Richard Dawkins
We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can’t disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. – Richard Dawkins
I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning. – Richard Dawkins
I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist. – Richard Dawkins