--- title: "3 Fairies Quotes By Richard Dawkins" description: "3 Fairies quotes by Richard Dawkins. Plus more from Richard Dawkins and more Fairies sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb9/richard-dawkins-115_agnostic_i-am-agnostic-only-to-the-extent-that-i_1510318.jpg" --- > [I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/i-am-agnostic-only-to-the-extent-that-i-am-agnostic-about-fairies-at/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb9/richard-dawkins-115_agnostic_i-am-agnostic-only-to-the-extent-that-i_1510318.jpg) > [We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-cannot-of-course-disprove-god-just-as-we-can-t-disprove-thor-2/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55e/richard-dawkins-115_cannot_we-cannot-of-course-disprove-god-just-as_2487078.jpg) > [There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/there-may-be-fairies-at-the-bottom-of-the-garden-there-is-no-evidence/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f90/richard-dawkins-115_agnostic_there-may-be-fairies-at-the-bottom-of-th_2674320.jpg) ## Other authors on Fairies - [Leigh Ann Edwards 22 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fairies/leigh-ann-edwards/) - [Lewis Spence 20 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fairies/lewis-spence/) - [Magda M. Olchawska 18 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fairies/magda-m-olchawska/) - [Kathy Bryson 14 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fairies/kathy-bryson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-brian-froud-19502.jpg) Brian Froud 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fairies/brian-froud/) - [Kailin Gow 10 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fairies/kailin-gow/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-asahel-nettleton-15173.jpg) Hazel Gaynor 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fairies/hazel-gaynor/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fairies/william-shakespeare/) - [Seanan McGuire 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fairies/seanan-mcguire/) - [Red Tash 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fairies/red-tash/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-ahmed-yassin-9854.jpg) Lisa Mantchev 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fairies/lisa-mantchev/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-julie-kagawa-54348.jpg) Julie Kagawa 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fairies/julie-kagawa/) ## More by Richard Dawkins > [At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/at-the-deepest-level-all-living-things-that-have-ever-been-looked-at/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-word-mundane-has-come-to-mean-boring-and-dull-and-it-really/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-animals-are-the-most-complicated-things-in-the-known-universe/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-fundamentalist-kurt-wise-proclaims-that-all-the-evidence-in-the/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/i-have-found-it-an-amusing-strategy-when-asked-whether-i-am-an/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/religions-do-make-claims-about-the-universe-the-same-kinds-of-claims/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/much-of-the-bible-is-not-systematically-evil-but-just-plain-weird-as/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-recurrent-laryngeal-nerve-which-runs-from-the-head-to-the-voice/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-roman-catholic-church-is-an-institution-for-whose-gains-the/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/let-us-understand-what-our-own-selfish-genes-are-up-to-because-we-may/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/what-s-going-to-happen-when-i-die-i-may-be-buried-or-i-may-be/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/or-why-it-is-acceptable-to-train-fast-runners-and-high-jumpers-but/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-have-seen-that-living-things-are-too-improbable-and-too/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [“We will not go quietly away. If in the future that requires violence”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-will-not-go-quietly-away-if-in-the-future-that-requires-violence/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/it-s-a-truly-disgusting-idea-that-the-creator-of-the-universe-capable/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fairies/richard-dawkins/#itemlist", "name": "3 Fairies Quotes By Richard Dawkins", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Richard Dawkins" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/i-am-agnostic-only-to-the-extent-that-i-am-agnostic-about-fairies-at/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb9/richard-dawkins-115_agnostic_i-am-agnostic-only-to-the-extent-that-i_1510318.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb9/richard-dawkins-115_agnostic_i-am-agnostic-only-to-the-extent-that-i_1510318.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb9/richard-dawkins-115_agnostic_i-am-agnostic-only-to-the-extent-that-i_1510318.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden” — Richard Dawkins", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Richard Dawkins" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-cannot-of-course-disprove-god-just-as-we-can-t-disprove-thor-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55e/richard-dawkins-115_cannot_we-cannot-of-course-disprove-god-just-as_2487078.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55e/richard-dawkins-115_cannot_we-cannot-of-course-disprove-god-just-as_2487078.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55e/richard-dawkins-115_cannot_we-cannot-of-course-disprove-god-just-as_2487078.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying…” — Richard Dawkins", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. 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