Powerful Quotes by Richard Dawkins

The fear of Hell is a very powerful motivation.

— Richard Dawkins

If you want to do bad things, science is the most powerful way to do them.

— Richard Dawkins

If you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do…

— Richard Dawkins

The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful…

— Richard Dawkins

The idea of tiny changes cumulated over many steps is an immensely powerful idea, capable of explaining an enormous range of things…

— Richard Dawkins

Religion is a powerful weapon that can be used because it persuades people to do things. And thus it can be used…

— Richard Dawkins

Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them…

— Richard Dawkins

My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and…

— Richard Dawkins

Religion has been a powerful weapon in the hands of governments, in the hands of priests, in the hands of kings who…

— Richard Dawkins

You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.'…

— Richard Dawkins

Evolution is a very, very important idea. It is the explanation for all of life - a stunningly simple, yet powerful explanation.…

— 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

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

For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are…

— Richard Dawkins