Argument Quotes by Richard Dawkins

The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.

— Richard Dawkins

Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.

— Richard Dawkins

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

— Richard Dawkins

I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.

— Richard Dawkins

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from…

— Richard Dawkins

The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an…

— Richard Dawkins

I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that,…

— Richard Dawkins

I am passionate about truth and passionate about clarity, and I don't regard myself as particularly militant or aggressive. I simply wish…

— Richard Dawkins

Barring a theoretical resolution, which I think is unlikely, you either have to say there are zillions of parallel universes out there…

— Richard Dawkins

When we started out and we were talking about the origins of the universe and the physical constants, I provided what I…

— Richard Dawkins

Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical…

— Richard Dawkins

If you are offended by reading views that disagree with yours, then yes, you will be offended. However, it is not gratuitously…

— Richard Dawkins

Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations…

— Richard Dawkins

Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have…

— Richard Dawkins

It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago.…

— Richard Dawkins

A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by…

— Richard Dawkins

I think we have got to start again and go right back to first principles. The argument I shall advance, surprising as…

— Richard Dawkins

“36. Argument from Incomplete Devastation: A plane crashed killing 143 passengers and crew. But one child survived with only third-degree burns. Therefore…

— Richard Dawkins

For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are…

— Richard Dawkins

People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you'd never be confident of things like 'My wife loves…

— Richard Dawkins