Universe Quotes by Richard Dawkins

'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.

— Richard Dawkins

The universe doesn't owe you a sense of hope

— Richard Dawkins

The Universe does not owe us meaning.

— Richard Dawkins

We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

— Richard Dawkins

If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection.

— Richard Dawkins

The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it…

— Richard Dawkins

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

It's a difficult business, finding out what's true about the world, the universe.

— Richard Dawkins

Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans.

— Richard Dawkins

If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I…

— Richard Dawkins

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a…

— Richard Dawkins

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil,…

— Richard Dawkins

It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the…

— Richard Dawkins

My computer is a very complex gadget and it was designed by many designers, so why must the universe have only a…

— Richard Dawkins

“The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe it just happened by blind chance...the obvious alternative to chance…

— Richard Dawkins

bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no…

— Richard Dawkins

I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have…

— Richard Dawkins

The other way is the multiverse way. That says that maybe the universe we are in is one of a very large…

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Barring a theoretical resolution, which I think is unlikely, you either have to say there are zillions of parallel universes out there…

— Richard Dawkins

Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here…

— Richard Dawkins

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

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I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain…

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It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists…

— Richard Dawkins

The gravitational constant, if it were off by one part in a hundred million million, then the expansion of the universe after…

— Richard Dawkins

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes…

— Richard Dawkins

A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.

— Richard Dawkins

The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.

— Richard Dawkins

Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.

— Richard Dawkins

Gould carried the art of bending over backward to positively supine lengths. Why shouldn't we comment on God, as scientists? ... A…

— Richard Dawkins

There are sincere believers who interpret Genesis 1 and 2 in a very literal way that is inconsistent, frankly, with our knowledge…

— 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

There is something so mysterious that it is almost like God. God is in the equations. God is in the fundamental constants.…

— Richard Dawkins

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is…

— Richard Dawkins

Certainly science should continue to see whether we can find evidence for multiverses that might explain why our own universe seems to…

— Richard Dawkins

Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable…

— Richard Dawkins

The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels…

— Richard Dawkins

Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a…

— Richard Dawkins