black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.

Richard Dawkins

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Admit Evolution Realize
Science is the poetry of reality.
RICHARD DAWKINS

One Liner Poetry Reality Science
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Doubt Earth Evolution Sun Theory
The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Beautiful Puzzle Solution
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
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
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
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
A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
RICHARD DAWKINS

Atheist God Message People
Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Evidence Prejudice Private Public replace Science
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Born Chance Generosity Science Selfish Understand Upset
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Belief Delusion Evidence Faith Reason
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
Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Destroy Evolution Existence Past Quality
I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Argument
The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Force Physics Science

Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Richard Dawkins Quotes