Atheist Quotes by Richard Dawkins

Atheists are the new gays; in the closet and pretty much disqualified from public office.

— Richard Dawkins

Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

— Richard Dawkins

Religious people are atheists about all other gods, atheists only take it one god further.

— Richard Dawkins

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

— Richard Dawkins

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god…

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would bulldoze Mecca-or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the…

— Richard Dawkins

In two senses: One is that you cannot go on the street and shout that you are an atheist, the other is…

— Richard Dawkins

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

Society bends over backward to be accommodating to religious sensibilities but not to other kinds of sensibilities. If I say something offensive…

— Richard Dawkins

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

Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to…

— Richard Dawkins

A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them…

— Richard Dawkins

It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're…

— Richard Dawkins

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty,…

— Richard Dawkins

“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also…

— Richard Dawkins

Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view.…

— Richard Dawkins

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

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly…

— Richard Dawkins

I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have…

— Richard Dawkins

“There's a kind of science defense lobby or evolution defense lobby in particular . They are mostly atheist, but they are desperately…

— Richard Dawkins

Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it.…

— Richard Dawkins

An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that…

— Richard Dawkins

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

If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had.…

— Richard Dawkins

“Let us remind ourselves of the terminology. A theist believes in a supernatural intelligence who, in addition to his main work of…

— Richard Dawkins

We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god…

— Richard Dawkins

“To hell with you, Buddy. No policeman wants to protect a goddamned atheist. I hope somebody bloodies you up good.”

— Richard Dawkins

I'm sure Obama is an atheist; I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.

— Richard Dawkins

An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden…

— Richard Dawkins

If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure…

— Richard Dawkins

Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to…

— Richard Dawkins

Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

— Richard Dawkins

There are people who try to get atheists to form a sort of atheist church and have atheist community singsongs and things.…

— Richard Dawkins

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.

— 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