Richard dawkins

A good theory explains a lot but postulates little.

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe it as a polarizing book or as an aggressive book, it's just that very often they...

In the original introduction to the word meme in the last chapter of 'The Selfish Gene,' I did actually use the metaphor of a 'virus.' So when anybody talks about something going viral on the...

I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

Even if 'going retrograde' or 'moving into Aquarius' were real phenomena, something that planets actually do, what influence could they possibly have on human events? A planet is so far away that its...

There are quite a lot of YouTube clips of me that have gone viral. One that I think of is of a young woman at a lecture I was giving - she came from Liberty University, which is a ludicrous religious...

How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'?

The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.