Atheism Quotes by Richard Dawkins

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

— Richard Dawkins

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.

— Richard Dawkins

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

— Richard Dawkins

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant.

— Richard Dawkins

Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position.

— Richard Dawkins

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think...

— Richard Dawkins

'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.

— Richard Dawkins

All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.

— Richard Dawkins

Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to…

— Richard Dawkins

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental…

— Richard Dawkins

To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

— Richard Dawkins

Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

— Richard Dawkins

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem.

— Richard Dawkins

The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction...

— Richard Dawkins

Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

— Richard Dawkins

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

— Richard Dawkins

The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded… I fear that, if the…

— Richard Dawkins

You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person…

— Richard Dawkins

When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It…

— Richard Dawkins

Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of…

— Richard Dawkins

To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why…

— Richard Dawkins

“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults)…

— Richard Dawkins

It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others,…

— Richard Dawkins

Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out…

— Richard Dawkins

Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising…

— Richard Dawkins

I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of…

— Richard Dawkins

So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least…

— Richard Dawkins

“Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by…

— Richard Dawkins

The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The…

— Richard Dawkins

The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it…

— Richard Dawkins

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. We are trying to understand how we have…

— Richard Dawkins

Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in…

— Richard Dawkins

“It is a tedious cliché (and, unlike many clichés, it isn't even true) that science concerns itself with how questions, but only…

— Richard Dawkins

The less you think, the more you believe.

— Richard Dawkins

“Religion is a distraction from true education.”

— Richard Dawkins

Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

— Richard Dawkins

We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.

— Richard Dawkins

“We can give up belief in God while not losing touch with a treasured heritage.”

— Richard Dawkins

“I am passionate about the truth. Passion is very different from fundamentalism.”

— Richard Dawkins

“There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.”

— Richard Dawkins