black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Richard Dawkins

The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Beautiful Evolution Extreme Place Understand Universe World
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Capable Experience Feeling Giving Human Science Wonder
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
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Children Disagree Evaluation Evidence Teaching Thinking
I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Alive Discover Humanity Limitation Time Understand
Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Atheist Disapprove Evolution Science
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
Science is the poetry of reality.
RICHARD DAWKINS

One Liner Poetry Reality Science
When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Intensity Opinion Truth
Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Doubt Gravity Jump Truth Version Window
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
There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Poetry Real Reality
The majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Children Fact Inherit Majority Parents Regret World
Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Evidence Prejudice Private Public replace Science
Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Brain Deep Drop Open Minded
Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Children Dangerous Deliberate Faith Innocent Vulnerable Wrong

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Richard Dawkins Quotes