black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

In the beginning was simplicity.

Richard Dawkins

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Believe Delusion Galaxy God Sleep Thinking
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 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
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Belief Evade Evaluate Evidence Excuse Faith Ignorance
If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Biology Evolution Fact History Ignorant Science
If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Change Thinking True
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
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Essence Life Probable Science
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
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
Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Busy Cancer Finding God Poverty Space
Science is the poetry of reality.
RICHARD DAWKINS

One Liner Poetry Reality Science
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Life Responsiblity
In the beginning was simplicity.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Beginning One Liner Simplicity
There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Poetry Real Reality
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Born Die Lucky People

In the beginning was simplicity.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

In the beginning was simplicity.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Richard Dawkins Quotes