The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
God stands out in the universe as the most glaring of all superfluous sore thumbs. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It's a difficult business, finding out what's true about the world, the universe. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe it just happened by blind chance...the obvious alternative to chance… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My computer is a very complex gadget and it was designed by many designers, so why must the universe have only a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The moral law is a reason to think of God as plausible - not just a God who sets the universe in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The gravitational constant, if it were off by one part in a hundred million million, then the expansion of the universe after… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Hence, at the moment of the creation of the universe, God could also have activated evolution, with full knowledge of how it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Barring a theoretical resolution, which I think is unlikely, you either have to say there are zillions of parallel universes out there… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The other way is the multiverse way. That says that maybe the universe we are in is one of a very large… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When we started out and we were talking about the origins of the universe and the physical constants, I provided what I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Certainly science should continue to see whether we can find evidence for multiverses that might explain why our own universe seems to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is something so mysterious that it is almost like God. God is in the equations. God is in the fundamental constants.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Gould carried the art of bending over backward to positively supine lengths. Why shouldn't we comment on God, as scientists? ... A… — 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
