Quotes by Richard Dawkins
“By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains fall out.”— Richard Dawkins
“Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view.”— Richard Dawkins
“The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.”— Richard Dawkins
“The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.”— Richard Dawkins
“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
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.”— Richard Dawkins
“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
“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”— Richard Dawkins
“The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.”— Richard Dawkins
“Evolution is a fact. Beyond reasonable doubt, beyond serious doubt, beyond sane, informed, intelligent doubt, beyond doubt evolution is a fact.”— Richard Dawkins
“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”— Richard Dawkins
“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.”— Richard Dawkins
“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
“A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand the same kind of explanation in his own right.”— Richard Dawkins