black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.

Richard Dawkins

If 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 DAWKINS

Atheist God Religion
We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Atheist Believe God Humanity
It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Acceptance Ignorance Literature Mathematics Science
Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Cause Grasp Human Reality Suffering Tool Word
Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Busy Cancer Finding God Poverty Space
The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Divine Elegance Ideas Reality Science Universe
I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Diversity Enthusiasm Fact Opinion Science
If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Biology Children Expectation Human Moral Nature Teaching
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Evil Religion Root
Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Encouragement Evolution Teaching Theory
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Born Die Lucky People
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
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Belief Delusion Evidence Faith Reason
Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Disturb Finding Matter People Place Reality Togetherness
The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Chicken Egg Revolution Science
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Evil Religion Root
Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Children Conclusion Consequence Different Faith Learning
Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Confusion Fun Myth Truth
Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Blind Book Evidence Mind People Religious Revelation Switch Want
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Belief Institution Passage Power Religion Time Truth
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Alone Earth Rebel Selfish
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Color Life Planet Reality Science Sleep
Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Arrogance Clarity Mistake One Liner
Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Stop Truth Unfortunately
Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Evidence Prejudice Private Public replace Science
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
Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Express Ignorance One Liner Word

I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Richard Dawkins Quotes