Evidence Quotes by Richard Dawkins

“Nothing is more lethal for certain kinds of meme than a tendency to look for evidence.”

— Richard Dawkins

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

— Richard Dawkins

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

— Richard Dawkins

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

— Richard Dawkins

There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

All qualified physicists, biologists, cosmologists and geologists agree, on the basis of massive, mutually corroborating evidence, that the earth's age is at…

— Richard Dawkins

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work…

— Richard Dawkins

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there…

— Richard Dawkins

You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person…

— Richard Dawkins

The evidence for evolution is so compelling that the only way to save the creation theory is to assume that God deliberately…

— Richard Dawkins

Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over…

— Richard Dawkins

Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that…

— Richard Dawkins

You don't believe that the Earth is round only if you're an astronaut. You don't believe Napoleon existed only if you're a…

— 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

The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that…

— Richard Dawkins

If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I…

— Richard Dawkins

Creationists and Holocaust deniers are both very similar - both are denying what is a perfectly manifest fact. In the case of…

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Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody…

— 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

The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other…

— Richard Dawkins

I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about…

— Richard Dawkins

Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could…

— Richard Dawkins

I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue,…

— Richard Dawkins

Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have…

— 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

Some sort of belief in all-powerful supernatural beings is common, if not universal. A tendency to obey authority, perhaps especially in children,…

— Richard Dawkins

People sometimes try to score debating points by saying, Evolution is only a theory. That is correct, but it's important to understand…

— Richard Dawkins

So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least…

— 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

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

— Richard Dawkins

“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in…

— Richard Dawkins

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch…

— Richard Dawkins

Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.

— Richard Dawkins

We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the…

— Richard Dawkins

The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the…

— Richard Dawkins

Certainly science should continue to see whether we can find evidence for multiverses that might explain why our own universe seems to…

— Richard Dawkins

I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence.

— Richard Dawkins

Again, it is belief without evidence. In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of…

— Richard Dawkins

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private…

— Richard Dawkins