black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Richard Dawkins

Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Comparison Evil Faith Greatness Virus World
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
We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Atheist Believe God Humanity
Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Arrogance Clarity Mistake One Liner
Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Benefit Choose Education Science Technology
Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Stop Truth Unfortunately
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
Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop, sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Decision Ideas Life Stop Trick
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
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Children Disagree Evaluation Evidence Teaching Thinking
It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Deep Deliver Music Passion Poetry Rank
Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Atheist Belief Evidence Faith Result Science
I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Argument
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
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
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

Animal Evidence Evolution Force Science Survival
Evolution 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 DAWKINS

Atheist Disapprove Evolution Science
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 has its own magic: the magic of reality.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Magic Reality Science
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
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
Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Disturb Finding Matter People Place Reality Togetherness
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
Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Believe Faith Justify People Religious
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Disguise Inspection Selfish
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
Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Agree Interesting Science

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Richard Dawkins Quotes