In the beginning was simplicity.
RICHARD DAWKINSIn the beginning was simplicity.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
RICHARD DAWKINSSuch delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
RICHARD DAWKINSToday the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
RICHARD DAWKINSAmerican political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
RICHARD DAWKINSBe thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
RICHARD DAWKINSI 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 DAWKINSIf there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
RICHARD DAWKINSWe are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
RICHARD DAWKINSWe are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
RICHARD DAWKINS