It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
RICHARD DAWKINSIt is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
RICHARD DAWKINSUnfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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 DAWKINSAny altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
RICHARD DAWKINSToday the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
RICHARD DAWKINSLet children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
RICHARD DAWKINSWhen 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 DAWKINSIt often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
RICHARD DAWKINSThere’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
RICHARD DAWKINSYou can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
RICHARD DAWKINSEvolution 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 DAWKINSIt would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
RICHARD DAWKINS