black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I 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 Dawkins

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Discourage Faith Inquiry Meme Rational Unconsicious
It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Absolute Believe Claim Evolution Ignorance Insane Stupidity
Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Adult Alteration Control Development Evolution Program
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Evil Religion Root
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Belief Delusion Evidence Faith Reason
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
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
Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Exploit Individual Ready Selfish System
Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
RICHARD DAWKINS

God Religion Science Suppose Wonder
How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Arrange God Religion
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Amount Beyond Decent Natural Suffering World
I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Argument
Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Atheist Authority Comparison Independence Organization
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Act Disguise Inspection Selfish
Science is the poetry of reality.
RICHARD DAWKINS

One Liner Poetry Reality 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

I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Richard Dawkins Quotes