Richard Dawkins Quotes & Sayings (Page 10)

“How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'?”

“Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.”

“Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.”

“We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.”

“Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.”

“Segregation has no place in the education system.”

“I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.”

“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 pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.”

“The Bible was written by fallible human beings.”