black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We 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

Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
RICHARD DAWKINS

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

People Religion True Wise
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
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
When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Die Life
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
You can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Character Condition Survival
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
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
We 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

Evolution Machine Molecule Science Survival Truth Vehicle
The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Important Mathematics
Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Atheist Creation God Knowledge Science Seek Truth Understand
It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Advocate Ban Religion Tolerance
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
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Essence Life Probable Science
Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Confusion Fun Myth Truth

We 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

We 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Richard Dawkins Quotes