God Quotes by Richard Dawkins

“God likes to have his free lunch and be it too.”

— Richard Dawkins

We have the power to turn against our creators.

— Richard Dawkins

God is the answer to all of those "How must it have come to be" questions.

— Richard Dawkins

The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.

— Richard Dawkins

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant.

— Richard Dawkins

Einstein was adamant in rejecting all ideas of a personal god.

— Richard Dawkins

By being outside of nature, God is also outside of space and time.

— Richard Dawkins

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by…

— Richard Dawkins

I was never much bothered about moral questions like, 'How could there be a good God when there's so much evil in…

— Richard Dawkins

God is an idea that people believe in and I spend time arguing with people that subscribe to that idea(man made idea).

— Richard Dawkins

“If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it.”

— Richard Dawkins

We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

— 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

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

— Richard Dawkins

God stands out in the universe as the most glaring of all superfluous sore thumbs.

— Richard Dawkins

“[God is] a vindictive bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser , a misogynistic, homophobic racist, an infanticidal, genocidal, phillicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”

— Richard Dawkins

“I don’t try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as…

— 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

Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he…

— Richard Dawkins

A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence…

— 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

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 there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that…

— 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

“The metaphorical or pantheistic God of the physicists is light years away from the interventionist, miracle-wreaking, thought-reading, sin-punishing, prayer-answering God of the…

— Richard Dawkins

“There is something distinctly odd about the argument, however. Believing is not something you can decide to do as a matter of…

— Richard Dawkins

“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults)…

— Richard Dawkins

“It is possible to conceive, Anselm said, of a being than which nothing greater can be conceived. Even an atheist can conceive…

— Richard Dawkins

“Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by…

— Richard Dawkins

“The deist God is a physicist to end all physics, the alpha and omega of mathematicians, the apotheosis of designers; a hyper-engineer…

— Richard Dawkins

“The oldest of the three Abrahamic religions, and the clear ancestor of the other two, is Judaism: originally a tribal cult of…

— Richard Dawkins

“Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workable alternative to chance that has ever…

— Richard Dawkins

“I think that when you consider the beauty of the world and you wonder how it came to be what it is,…

— Richard Dawkins

I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe…

— Richard Dawkins

“We are talking about a bet, remember, and Pascal wasn't claiming that his wager enjoyed anything but very long odds. Would you…

— Richard Dawkins

It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us…

— Richard Dawkins

I think it's misleading to use a word like 'God' in the way Einstein did. I'm sorry that Einstein did. I think…

— Richard Dawkins

“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults)…

— Richard Dawkins

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but…

— Richard Dawkins

...I am not attacking any particular God or gods. I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything supernatural, whenever or wherever…

— Richard Dawkins