Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think... — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction... — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I'm sure Obama is an atheist; I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“To hell with you, Buddy. No policeman wants to protect a goddamned atheist. I hope somebody bloodies you up good.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god - from Ra to Shiva - in which he does not… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Atheists sometimes come across as a bit arrogant in this regard, and characterizing faith as something only an idiot would attach themselves… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Organizing atheists is a bit like herding cats; They are on the whole too intelligent and independent minded to lend themselves to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The list of things about which we strictly have to be agnostic doesn't stop at tooth fairies and celestial teapots. It is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you're an atheist, you know, you believe, this is the only life you're going to get. It's a precious life. It's… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Let us remind ourselves of the terminology. A theist believes in a supernatural intelligence who, in addition to his main work of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Atheists are the new gays; in the closet and pretty much disqualified from public office. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religious people are atheists about all other gods, atheists only take it one god further. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Society bends over backward to be accommodating to religious sensibilities but not to other kinds of sensibilities. If I say something offensive… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you divide Christians into denominations, agnostics and atheists come in third, behind Catholics and Baptists. That's interesting when you contrast it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In two senses: One is that you cannot go on the street and shout that you are an atheist, the other is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
“much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
