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 institution. She said, ‘What if you are wrong?’ and I answered that rather briefly, and that’s gone viral. Richard Dawkins Read Quote
I’m afraid the Internet is filled with people using really very intemperate language. Richard Dawkins Read Quote
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 Read Quote
We should take astrology seriously. No, I don’t mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it as a piece of harmless fun. Richard Dawkins Read Quote
A constellation is not an entity at all, not the kind of thing that Uranus, or anything else, can sensibly be said to ‘move into.’ Richard Dawkins Read Quote
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 gravitational pull on a new-born baby would be swamped by the gravitational pull of the doctor’s paunch. Richard Dawkins Read Quote
Tortoises can survive for weeks without food or water, easily long enough to float in the Humboldt Current from South America to the Galapagos Islands. Richard Dawkins Read Quote
If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged. Richard Dawkins Read Quote
