Complexity Quote by Richard Dawkins

The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.

— Richard Dawkins

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. We are trying to understand how we have got a…

— Richard Dawkins

What is more simple than to believe in God? Its very simplicity argues the case.

— James Cook

Scientifically speaking, the existence of God is an untenable hypothesis. It's not well-defined, it's completely unnecessary to fit the data, and it adds unhelpful…

— Sean M. Carroll

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do…

— Isaac Newton

“The hypothesis of God, for instance, gives an incomparably absolute opportunity to understand everything and know absolutely nothing. Give man an extremely simplified system…

— Arkady Strugatsky

For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves…

— Nelson Goodman

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

— Richard P. Feynman

“As science advances, there seems to be less and less for God to do. It's a big universe, of course, so He, She, or…

— Carl Sagan

“to admit we do not understand a phenomenon is not to admit the presence of the miraculous but merely, reasonably, to accept the limitations…

— Salman Rushdie

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible.…

— Anonymous

Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.

— Fred Brooks