Richard Dawkins

Natural selection is anything but random.

What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.

Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.

Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly, relying on the words themselves to convey his meaning, without resorting to yelling.

I don't think that it's up to government to dictate what people should wear.

All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are no fossils in the wrong place.

The interesting question would be whether there's a Darwinian process, a kind of selection process whereby some memes are more likely to spread than others, because people like them, because they're popular, because they're catchy or whatever it might be.

There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. We shouldn't be too surprised about that because we're evolved to understand things that move at a medium pace at a medium scale. We can't cope with the very tiny scale of quantum physics or the very large scale of relativity.

I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

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.

Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.

I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind.

We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.

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?

We frequently look into the future of mankind and see dangers. We see if we carry on doing what we are doing in 20 years' time there will be no rainforests left, just to use one example. Looking into the future may be one of the reasons that brains evolved in the first place.