I want very much to communicate science to as wide an audience as possible, but not at a cost of dumbing down, and not at a cost in getting things right. Richard Dawkins audiencecommunicatecost Change image and share on social
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. Richard Dawkins cardesigndesigner share on social
If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolution, you might find a fairly substantial fraction of young people, without knowing what it is they disapprove of, think they disapprove of it, because they've been brought up to. Richard Dawkins bringdisapproveevolution share on social
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. Richard Dawkins biblecultureemphatically share on social
It's a difficult business, finding out what's true about the world, the universe. Richard Dawkins businessdifficultfind Change image and share on social
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 bodyburycremate Change image and share on social
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs. Richard Dawkins chancedesigngene Change image and share on social
In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever asking what their opinions were. Faith too is like that. Richard Dawkins belongcountryfaith Change image and share on social
If you look up at the Milky Way through the eyes of Carl Sagan, you get a feeling in your chest of something greater than yourself. And it is. But it's not supernatural. Richard Dawkins carlchesteye Change image and share on social
The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension-dominated flatland, we live in a social world. Richard Dawkins arborealcarcomputer share on social
