In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.


Richard Dawkins

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no des...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no des...
CHARLES DARWIN
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. Duri...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Look at us! Are we not proof that there is no good, no evil, no truth, no reason? Are we not proof t...
GRANT MORRISON
There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Univ...
ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY
But how can we venture to reprove or praise the universe! Let us beware of attributing to it heartle...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as...
C.S. LEWIS
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as...
C. S. LEWIS
Ascension If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no mea...
C. S. LEWIS
The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experie...
DR. CARL SAGAN
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
True Love is when you are able to see yourself in another, when you recognize that there is no separ...
JOSEPH P. KAUFFMAN
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
There are no good or evil people. There is only a great, unfathomable mob trampling itself underfoot...
TADEUSZ KONWICKI
In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.
AL GOLDSTEIN
Sexuality is like any other activity. There are people for whom skydiving, chocolate cake and soccer...
DAVID JAY
The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a sing...
MICHAEL CRICHTON
There is no secret in attaining God. In the path of Enlightenment, any theoretical mystery-mongering...
ABHIJIT NASKAR
‎"If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we ...
WILLIAM LANE CRAIG
Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
We are in 2006 and nothing has happened. There are no international forces we can count on, and no o...
FLORENCE HARTMANN
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any simi...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
When people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sens...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent...
DEEPAK CHOPRA
I don't know where he's going to get these troops, ... There won't be any National Guard left ... no...
CHUCK HAGEL
When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; wh...
AYN RAND
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to length...
WILLIAM JAMES
People with disabilities tend to get labeled, even though they are no different than any other peopl...
JAMES ROSNER
That way you can find out where you are at in the picture, what you need, any problems you'd encount...
LAURIE PETERSON
I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one direc...
STEPHEN HAWKING
There were two forces against each other, those of the apartheid forces and then those of the libera...
VUSI PIKOLI
The football players (including Gallagher and Pat Devlin) are trying to find their legs and conditio...
JOE SETTE
We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON
We are very, very fortunate because this is not a weekday and there is no rush hour. People need to ...
BRUCE SIMON
Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There ar...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS
We have nothing but our freedom. We have nothing to give you but your own freedom. We have no law bu...
URSULA K. LE GUIN
Many people have no destination in life and if you don’t know where you are going then any road ca...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study t...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every ...
MAHATMA GANDHI
There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every ...
MOHANDAS GANDHI
You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right ...
MAX EHRMANN
Beyond their immaculate design, the reason sharks rule the ocean is their complete indifference to e...
RICK YANCEY
They are deeper than we are, they won the physical battle, no doubt about it. Their depth hurt us, t...
BOB WRIGHT
If Someone misunderstood You but You have nothing against them, But sometimes people want to see in ...
AVNIJCUKY
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete yo...
OSCAR NIEMEYER
Damn it, there is no world if there is not a human eye to see it, no world of any purpose or meaning...
DEAN KOONTZ
It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one is inhabited. Therefo...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
when we look up, it widens our horizons. we see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insig...
JULIA GREGSON
The irony is that we're really good at comedy in Britain, but for some reason, we make very few ...
ALICE LOWE
When we started to look at it, once you get past the bandwidth issue it's also a business focus issu...
DEREK VAN BEVER
Seek for no meaning in it; it has none. What meaning is there in pain and pleasure? They are twins; ...
JOHN DAVIDSON
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found...
C.S. LEWIS
We believe because it gives us faith. It gives us the willingness to go through our day, to keep the...
TARUN BETALA
There has been plenty of opportunity for students to find out were they are going under no stress. W...
DAVID MADDEN
There's no reason to get down. We know we can win. Losing yesterday and losing today is not going to...
CARL EVERETT
No, no, no, no. The only way she's going to play me is to get in there and do it.
JACKIE KALLEN
There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no reason for restraints o...
RAVI ZACHARIAS
Remember, you are where you're supposed to be at any given point and time of the day. The people aro...
CELESTINE L. GRAY
Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associa...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Hmmm, let's see, you've got one main good race and one main evil race, plus a few other side races a...
ALEX GARDEN
There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream,...
MARK TWAIN
We're not going to get someone hurt, no matter how good they are.
DENNY MCCROTTY
But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the ...
JOHN JAY HOOKER
...When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justifi...
AYN RAND
People come to yoga to find themselves. Stretching releases tension, but there?s also a meditative, ...
MARTIN BERSON
You have to pay what the market bears, ... and in that regard, we are no different than any other bu...
BOB BOWLSBY
There is no rhyme or reason. I want to say we use square plates at Stone Barns because the fields ar...
DAN BARBER
There were no flames and no one was hurt. Nor were there any prerequisites for an explosion or radio...
IGOR DYGALO
The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core o...
DEREK LANDY
We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all. Be kind and do good for any ...
AMIT RAY
In my eyes, there are no white people, no black people, no any color people. JUST PEOPLE.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER
If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then...
ALBERT CAMUS
No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there th...
L. FRANK BAUM
Anytime you are ranked No. 2 in the country on the road, people are going to come out gunning for yo...
BOBBY LAMB
We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good ...
DANIEL DENNETT
You said you didn't want to get involved with me,that one of us would get hurt and how you couldn't ...
JULIAN GOUGH
There is a democratic process in the party, and that can be operated at any time. But am I going to ...
JEREMY CORBYN
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe, no les...
MAX EHRMANN
This is a happy thing, but we've been working to get what we deserve since 1978. They took a snapsho...
NANCY CHADWICK
We know Congress is not eager to do this but it's something that has to be done. I have no doubt tha...
MICHELLE DAVIS
If you have no money coming in, it can't get out. I don't know what people are going to do.
BARB QUINN
With any test, there are going to be false positives. We don't want to give people a reason not to g...
LARRY BRYANT
I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the U.K., everybody else h...
JEFFREY R. IMMELT
No injustice ever takes place in this universe. Whatsoever happens is always just and right, for the...
OSHO
We're seeing different things up and down the coast, but they are within a dime. There's been no mov...
JEFF FELDNER
There is not, and there will not be, any other laws and values in France other than French laws. We ...
MARINE LE PEN
If only it be admitted that art may be unintelligible to any one of sound mind and yet be art, there...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY
There's no rhyme or particular reason for why we have more or less homicides any given year,
CHRIS HILL
We're expecting anything from the Teamsters at any time. No day is a particularly good or bad day. W...
IRA ROSENFELD
For probably the first time in American history, civilians are asked to make no sacrifices in a time...
CHARLES MOSKOS
Those guys are good athletes out there. They're one of the best teams in the country. They are there...
JASON VARGAS
If you are going into any manufacturing establishment, don't go there by reason of any influence...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB
We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there ...
GARY LINEKER
There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for s...
SHANNON L. ALDER
There is no way we are going to let this team think that it is bigger and better than anyone else. W...
CURTIS SUMPTER
No rebel force can get U.S. support by attacking the AU -- in fact they are going to lose any suppor...
JENDAYI FRAZER
That's the reason we have large-scale illegal immigration: because we send a clear message that ther...
IRA MEHLMAN

More Richard Dawkins

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no des...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.
RICHARD DAWKINS
There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly,...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discour...
RICHARD DAWKINS
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is soc...
RICHARD DAWKINS
How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyo...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Human...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and p...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. Duri...
RICHARD DAWKINS
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous pl...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes. Like...
RICHARD DAWKINS
It's been suggested that if the supernaturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lo...
RICHARD DAWKINS
It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you ca...
RICHARD DAWKINS
My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-m...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Same religion that saves - Damns You
RICHARD DAWKINS
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and rewar...
RICHARD DAWKINS
There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove t...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in pri...
RICHARD DAWKINS
...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessari...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions a...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,'...
RICHARD DAWKINS
There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't pro...
RICHARD DAWKINS
To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doct...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignoran...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Einstein was adamant in rejecting all ideas of a personal god.
RICHARD DAWKINS
Don't kid yourself that you're going to live again after you're dead; you're not. Ma...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I'm sure Obama is an atheist; I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.
RICHARD DAWKINS
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers whi...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.
RICHARD DAWKINS
We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear.
RICHARD DAWKINS
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
RICHARD DAWKINS
Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to sugges...
RICHARD DAWKINS
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, b...
RICHARD DAWKINS
A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
RICHARD DAWKINS
The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - thou...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we tho...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Beauty arises out of human inspiration.
RICHARD DAWKINS
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
RICHARD DAWKINS
Evolution never looks to the future.
RICHARD DAWKINS
The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
RICHARD DAWKINS
We have a huge amount of DNA in common with jellyfish.
RICHARD DAWKINS
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Natural selection is anything but random.
RICHARD DAWKINS
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the envir...
RICHARD DAWKINS
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
RICHARD DAWKINS
I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters,...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a p...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in ac...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an inno...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say i...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The interesting question would be whether there's a Darwinian process, a kind of selection proce...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I did a film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a woman playing the cello in the bac...
RICHARD DAWKINS
If you look up at the Milky Way through the eyes of Carl Sagan, you get a feeling in your chest of s...
RICHARD DAWKINS
When a company seeks a new chief executive officer, or a university a new vice-chancellor, enormous ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we tho...
RICHARD DAWKINS
If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical li...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Just as I wouldn't expect a gynecologist to have a debate with somebody who believes in the Stor...
RICHARD DAWKINS
There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists.
RICHARD DAWKINS
Don't feel embarrassed if you've never heard of William Lane Craig. He parades himself as a ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks a...
RICHARD DAWKINS
If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.
RICHARD DAWKINS
We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about...
RICHARD DAWKINS
In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the i...
RICHARD DAWKINS
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and sprea...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented...
RICHARD DAWKINS
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.
RICHARD DAWKINS
We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far sho...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.
RICHARD DAWKINS
Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was k...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that ther...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationist...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follo...
RICHARD DAWKINS
If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep tal...
RICHARD DAWKINS
For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria...
RICHARD DAWKINS
A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barb...
RICHARD DAWKINS
A guided missile corrects its trajectory as it flies, homing in, say, on the heat of a jet plane'...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection,...
RICHARD DAWKINS
It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think o...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,'...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingle...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
People like to trace their ancestry.
RICHARD DAWKINS
What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of th...
RICHARD DAWKINS
What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain...
RICHARD DAWKINS
We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.
RICHARD DAWKINS
There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about,...
RICHARD DAWKINS
From a Darwinian perspective, it is clear what pain is doing. It's a warning: 'Don't do ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status...
RICHARD DAWKINS
You could give Ar...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests,...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the te...
RICHARD DAWKINS
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us...
RICHARD DAWKINS
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because th...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But am...
RICHARD DAWKINS
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival wi...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like &#...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned a...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about...
RICHARD DAWKINS
If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolu...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning...
RICHARD DAWKINS
When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructi...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up soc...
RICHARD DAWKINS
They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate ratio...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Nature is not cruel, pitiless, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.
RICHARD DAWKINS
What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather t...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that i...
RICHARD DAWKINS
You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Passion for passion, an evangelical Christian and I may be evenly matched. But we are not equally fu...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated soci...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It's a...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Even if 'going retrograde' or 'moving into Aquarius' were real phenomena, something ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine...
RICHARD DAWKINS
George Bush is a catastrophe for the world. And a dream for Bin Laden.
RICHARD DAWKINS
Any teaching of falsehoods in science classes should certainly be identified and stopped by school i...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The Bible was written by fallible human beings.
RICHARD DAWKINS
All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
[Evolution is] a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen...
RICHARD DAWKINS
God stands out in the universe as the most glaring of all superfluous sore thumbs.
RICHARD DAWKINS
I think that people in the Bible Belt are far less monolithically religious than many people imagine...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the po...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but the...
RICHARD DAWKINS
A good theory explains a lot but postulates little.
RICHARD DAWKINS
The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in pri...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted...
RICHARD DAWKINS
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the envir...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear abou...
RICHARD DAWKINS
What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views.
RICHARD DAWKINS
I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to refle...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
RICHARD DAWKINS
Saddam Hussein could have provided irreplaceable help to future historians of the Iran/Iraq war, of ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The very large brain that humans have, plus the things that go along with it - language, art, scienc...
RICHARD DAWKINS
If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against y...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will p...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of l...
RICHARD DAWKINS
There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.
RICHARD DAWKINS
I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misuse...
RICHARD DAWKINS
In the original introduction to the word meme in the last chapter of 'The Selfish Gene,' I d...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.
RICHARD DAWKINS
I've never been the sort of firebrand that I've been made out to be. I'm actually quite ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions an...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the h...
RICHARD DAWKINS
It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, Lon...
RICHARD DAWKINS
There are quite a lot of YouTube clips of me that have gone viral. One that I think of is of a young...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations ha...
RICHARD DAWKINS
There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
A triumph of consciousness-raising has been the homosexual hijacking of the word 'gay.'
RICHARD DAWKINS
Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake...
RICHARD DAWKINS
If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing fo...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale
RICHARD DAWKINS
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought,...
RICHARD DAWKINS
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect o...
RICHARD DAWKINS
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous pl...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I don't feel depressed. I feel elated.
RICHARD DAWKINS
I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I was never much bothered about moral questions like, 'How could there be a good God when there&...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Осьминог ничем не похож на мышь, а оба они сильно отлич�...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Некоторые критики ошибочно считают, что «Эгоистичный �...
RICHARD DAWKINS
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules kno...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Earlier than about 10,000 years ago, all human populations were hunter gatherers. Soon, probably non...
RICHARD DAWKINS
But the very fact that Darwinism is true makes it even more important for us to fight against the na...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities th...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Darwin himself said as much: 'If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Darwin singled out the eye as posing a particularly challenging problem: 'To suppose that the eye wi...
RICHARD DAWKINS
A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of re...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two m...
RICHARD DAWKINS
It is a strange fact, incidentally, that religious apologists love the anthropic principle. For some...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious
defence? One might have supp...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly depa...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consumin...
RICHARD DAWKINS
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children,...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independen...
RICHARD DAWKINS
If you don't understand how something
works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You d...
RICHARD DAWKINS