“By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.” Richard Dawkins BrainWisdomFunOpen-minded
“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 Lie
“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 GodLie
“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.” Richard Dawkins
“Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?” Richard Dawkins
“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?” Richard Dawkins Respect
“The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.” Richard Dawkins
“It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.” Richard Dawkins IgnoranceProud
“A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.” Richard Dawkins Lie
“The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.” Richard Dawkins Luck
“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
“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 ChangeLie
“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 GodUniverse
“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 ChildLieWork
“We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.” Richard Dawkins BrainImportant
“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.” Richard Dawkins LiePowerTimeTruth
“Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.” Richard Dawkins
“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 Lie
“I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.” Richard Dawkins FeelIgnoranceTime
“For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.” Richard Dawkins Time
“Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.” Richard Dawkins WarWin
“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 EvilGoodUniverse
“Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.” Richard Dawkins
“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 LovePeace
“The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.” Richard Dawkins SchoolTruth
“The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.” Richard Dawkins
“The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.” Richard Dawkins JusticeLifeUniverse
