Life Quotes by Richard Dawkins

Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind

— Richard Dawkins

“Religion can endanger the life of the pious individual, as well as the lives of others.”

— Richard Dawkins

“There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness, which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence.”

— Richard Dawkins

“I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he…

— Richard Dawkins

God's existence is either true or not. But calling it a scientific question implies that the tools of science can provide the…

— Richard Dawkins

We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.

— Richard Dawkins

By dislaiming the idea of a next life, we can take more excitement in this one!

— Richard Dawkins

“In the case of living machinery, the ‘designer’ is unconscious natural selection, the blind watchmaker.”

— Richard Dawkins

They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence.…

— Richard Dawkins

If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your…

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Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of…

— Richard Dawkins

We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what…

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“Curiously, peace-time appeals for individuals to make some small sacrifice in the rate at which they increase their standard of living seem…

— 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

Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense,…

— Richard Dawkins

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we…

— Richard Dawkins

The gravitational constant, if it were off by one part in a hundred million million, then the expansion of the universe after…

— Richard Dawkins

“And some scientists and other intellectuals are convinced—too eagerly in my view—that the question of God's existence belongs in the forever inaccessible…

— Richard Dawkins

“There is more than just grandeur in this view of life, bleak and cold though it can seem from under the security…

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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with…

— Richard Dawkins

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is…

— Richard Dawkins

Nowadays theologians aren't quite so straightforward as Paley. They don't point to complex living mechanisms and say that they are self-evidently designed…

— Richard Dawkins

The true scientific understanding of the nature of existence is so utterly fascinating; how could you not want people to share it?…

— Richard Dawkins

Steve Grand is the creator of what I think is the nearest approach to artificial life so far, and his first book,…

— Richard Dawkins

“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes…

— Richard Dawkins

“Look at life from our perspective, and you eukaryotes will soon cease giving yourselves such airs. You bipedal apes, you stump-tailed tree-shrews,…

— Richard Dawkins

“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with…

— Richard Dawkins

I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to…

— Richard Dawkins

“It is often said, mainly by the 'no-contests', that although there is no positive evidence for the existence of God, nor is…

— Richard Dawkins

That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of…

— Richard Dawkins

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes…

— Richard Dawkins

“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are…

— Richard Dawkins

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

— Richard Dawkins

[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life.

— Richard Dawkins

Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.

— Richard Dawkins

All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.

— Richard Dawkins

When I sign books, I get lines of people and what they usually say is: "Thank you. You have changed my life."…

— Richard Dawkins

Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know…

— Richard Dawkins

But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead,…

— Richard Dawkins

Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop,sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to…

— Richard Dawkins