black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

Richard Dawkins

It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Deep Deliver Music Passion Poetry Rank
Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Destroy Evolution Existence Past Quality
Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Building Evolution Gravity Jump Theory
I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Assumption Faith God Life Live
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Alone Earth Rebel Selfish
Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
RICHARD DAWKINS

God Religion Science Suppose Wonder
A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
RICHARD DAWKINS

Atheist God Message People
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Born Chance Generosity Science Selfish Understand Upset
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Blind Design Evil Expectation Indifference Observe Property Universe
Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Choose Indeed Life Wonderful
The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Atheist Discourage People Reason Religious Time
Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Brain Deep Drop Open Minded
Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Brain Complex Conscious Model World
If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Biology Evolution Fact History Ignorant Science
The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Deep Dinner Fox Life Rabbit Run
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Essence Life Probable Science

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Richard Dawkins Quotes