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Richard Dawkins

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

-Richard Dawkins

age

I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.

-Richard Dawkins

age

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

-Richard Dawkins

beauty

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.

-Richard Dawkins

car

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

-Richard Dawkins

computers

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

-Richard Dawkins

design

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.

-Richard Dawkins

design

Segregation has no place in the education system.

-Richard Dawkins

education

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

-Richard Dawkins

experience

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

-Richard Dawkins

faith

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

-Richard Dawkins

faith

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

-Richard Dawkins

faith

At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.

-Richard Dawkins

faith

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

-Richard Dawkins

funny

Evolution never looks to the future.

-Richard Dawkins

future

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

-Richard Dawkins

god

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

-Richard Dawkins

god

The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.

-Richard Dawkins

god

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

-Richard Dawkins

god

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

-Richard Dawkins

good

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

-Richard Dawkins

great

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

-Richard Dawkins

great

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

-Richard Dawkins

history

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

-Richard Dawkins

history

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

-Richard Dawkins

nature

Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.

-Richard Dawkins

peace

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

-Richard Dawkins

poetry

I love romantic poetry.

-Richard Dawkins

poetry

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

-Richard Dawkins

power

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

-Richard Dawkins

power

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

-Richard Dawkins

religion

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

-Richard Dawkins

religion

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

-Richard Dawkins

religion

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

-Richard Dawkins

religion

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

-Richard Dawkins

religion

Richard Dawkins

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.

Segregation has no place in the education system.

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Evolution never looks to the future.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

I love romantic poetry.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.

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