But that shouldn't matter to us. If they get the ball on the 30-yard line, our mind-set is we should still hold them to a field goal.


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Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status...
RICHARD DAWKINS
You could give Ar...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests,...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the te...
RICHARD DAWKINS
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us...
RICHARD DAWKINS
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because th...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been...
JOHN DAWKINS
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But am...
RICHARD DAWKINS
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival wi...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like &#...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned a...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about...
RICHARD DAWKINS
If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolu...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning...
RICHARD DAWKINS
When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructi...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up soc...
RICHARD DAWKINS
They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate ratio...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Nature is not cruel, pitiless, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.
RICHARD DAWKINS
What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather t...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that i...
RICHARD DAWKINS
You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Passion for passion, an evangelical Christian and I may be evenly matched. But we are not equally fu...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated soci...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It's a...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Even if 'going retrograde' or 'moving into Aquarius' were real phenomena, something ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine...
RICHARD DAWKINS
George Bush is a catastrophe for the world. And a dream for Bin Laden.
RICHARD DAWKINS
Any teaching of falsehoods in science classes should certainly be identified and stopped by school i...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The Bible was written by fallible human beings.
RICHARD DAWKINS
All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
[Evolution is] a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen...
RICHARD DAWKINS
God stands out in the universe as the most glaring of all superfluous sore thumbs.
RICHARD DAWKINS
I think that people in the Bible Belt are far less monolithically religious than many people imagine...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the po...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but the...
RICHARD DAWKINS
A good theory explains a lot but postulates little.
RICHARD DAWKINS
The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in pri...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted...
RICHARD DAWKINS
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the envir...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear abou...
RICHARD DAWKINS
What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views.
RICHARD DAWKINS
I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to refle...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
RICHARD DAWKINS