Time Quotes by Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

It's about time we start criticizing faith.

— Richard Dawkins

“evolution is blind to the future”

— Richard Dawkins

Evolution never looks to the future.

— Richard Dawkins

“It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.”

— Richard Dawkins

Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time…

— Richard Dawkins

“It is a commonplace that good historians don’t judge statements from past times by the standards of their own.”

— Richard Dawkins

“We will not go quietly away. If in the future that requires violence”

— Richard Dawkins

False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.

— 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

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

— Richard Dawkins

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions…

— Richard Dawkins

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We…

— Richard Dawkins

I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually…

— Richard Dawkins

“Karen Owens has captured this witty little paradox in equally engaging verse:   Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The…

— Richard Dawkins

The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's…

— Richard Dawkins

However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or complain that it is dull or barren…

— Richard Dawkins

The odd thing about tradition is, the longer it's been going, the more people seem to take it seriously - as though…

— Richard Dawkins

All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are…

— Richard Dawkins

In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of…

— Richard Dawkins

What Francis [Collins] was just saying about Genesis was, of course, a little private quarrel between him and his Fundamentalist colleagues. It…

— Richard Dawkins

“We would not waste time saying so because nobody, so far as I know, worships teapots;fn4 but, if pressed, we would not…

— Richard Dawkins

In medieval times, the Church used to sell 'indulgences' for money. This amounted to paying for some number of days' remission from…

— Richard Dawkins

We frequently look into the future of mankind and see dangers. We see if we carry on doing what we are doing…

— Richard Dawkins

Hence, at the moment of the creation of the universe, God could also have activated evolution, with full knowledge of how it…

— Richard Dawkins

In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote…

— Richard Dawkins

You could give Aristotle a tutorial and you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath,…

— Richard Dawkins

“Was there to be any end to the gradual improvement in the techniques and artifices used by the replicators to ensure their…

— Richard Dawkins

“We can now assert with confidence that the theory that the Earth moves round the Sun not only is right for our…

— Richard Dawkins

“The nineteenth-century connection is now clear. The nineteenth century is the last time when it was possible for an educated person to…

— Richard Dawkins

DNA is ROM. It can be read millions of times over, but only written to once - when it is first assembled…

— Richard Dawkins

What I am skeptical about is the idea that whatever wonderful revelation does come in the science of the future, it will…

— Richard Dawkins

I didn't know children were expected to have literary heroes, but I certainly had one, and I even identified with him at…

— Richard Dawkins

“Next time somebody tells you that something is true, why not say to them: 'What kind of evidence is there for that?'…

— Richard Dawkins

The state of Israel seems to owe its very existence to the American Jewish vote, while at the same time consigning the…

— Richard Dawkins

It is time to stop the mealy-mouthed euphemisms: 'Nationalists', 'Loyalists', 'Communities', 'Ethnic Groups', 'Cultures', 'Civilizations'. Religions is the word you need. Religions…

— Richard Dawkins

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing…

— Richard Dawkins

Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William…

— Richard Dawkins

The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the sins…

— Richard Dawkins

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed…

— Richard Dawkins