“Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.”
Peace
“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.”
ReligionAll Quotes by Richard Dawkins
“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“Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.”
Age“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.”
Experience“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?”
Respect“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.”
Beauty“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.”
Faith“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”
Power“It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.”
Religion“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.”
Science“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.”
Technology“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.”
Faith“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?”
Sad“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.”
Religion“Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.”
Nature“Evolution never looks to the future.”
Future“Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.”
Science“By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”
Funny“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.”
Time“I love romantic poetry.”
Poetry