Don't kid yourself that you're going to live again after you're dead; you're not. Make the most of the one life you've… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Our own existence once presented the greatest of all mysteries, but ... it is a mystery no longer because it is solved.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life. Because I do believe in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite possibility that we are totally alone,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When I sign books, I get lines of people and what they usually say is: "Thank you. You have changed my life."… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults)… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What I can't understand is why you invoke improbability and yet you will not admit that you're shooting yourself in the foot… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It is possible to conceive, Anselm said, of a being than which nothing greater can be conceived. Even an atheist can conceive… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults)… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive on the stuff… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“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,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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