Richard Dawkins Quotes
"The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.""There is no well-demonstrated reason to believe in God. If you were inculcated with it as a child, you might have a belief that a certain book is true and God's word. Letting go of that is not easy, but you should do it""I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.""To live at all is miracle enough.""Science is the poetry of reality.""By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.""The God Delusion.""When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion, it is called religion.""Secularism teaches us to be good for our own sake.""We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.""Climbing Mount Improbable.""Natural selection is anything but random.""The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.""Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts that simply do not make evolutionary sense""I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will""We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here""Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you""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 (or wicked, but I’d rather not consider that)""The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice""Science replaces private prejudice with publicly verifiable evidence"