Richard Dawkins Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and arbitrarily violate them in order to walk on water, or turn water into wine as a cheap party trick at a wedding?”

“A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.”

“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”

“There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?”

“The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.”

“The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.”

“I don't feel depressed. I feel elated.”

“Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.”

“When a company seeks a new chief executive officer, or a university a new vice-chancellor, enormous trouble is taken to find the best person.”

“Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.”