15 beautiful quotes by Richard Dawkins. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
← Browse all quotes
Richard Dawkins
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
“To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cob...
“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in s...
“Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people nee...
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty...
“Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a gri...
“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes ...
“We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is ...
“Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off.Note: Dawkins was quoting a former editor of New Scient...
“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling wit...
“It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. ...
“It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to...
“A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. Th...
“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of ti...
“The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capa...
