The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America. Richard Dawkins americaenlightenmentreason Change image and share on social
Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk. Richard Dawkins accountascensionbeanstalk Change image and share on social
The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful. Richard Dawkins artexaggeratemusic Change image and share on social
There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say to 140 characters, and it's something that I quite enjoy attempting to do. Richard Dawkins artattemptbrevity Change image and share on social
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 breathtakinglybuildchemistry share on social
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it? Richard Dawkins bearbeddiscover Change image and share on social
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. Richard Dawkins accuracyalterattempt share on social
I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims. Richard Dawkins callchristiancultural Change image and share on social
I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now, and there is absolutely no tendency for rioting and mayhem, and it is extremely civilised. Richard Dawkins absolutelyacademicchristian share on social
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 biologybranchcode Change image and share on social