Quotes by Richard Dawkins

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)

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

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)

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)

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

Isnt 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)

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. (Richard Dawkins)

Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society. (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, wheres the harm? September 11th changed all that. (Richard Dawkins)

Nature is not cruel, pitiless, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose. (Richard Dawkins)