Richard Dawkins Quotes

"God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture."
-Richard Dawkins in God quotes.

"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

"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?"
-Richard Dawkins in Fairies quotes.

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
-Richard Dawkins in Atheism quotes.

"What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?"
-Richard Dawkins in Theology quotes.

"Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society."
-Richard Dawkins

"Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but decided quietly, soberly and on it's own merits. We need less emotion and more thought."
-Richard Dawkins

"Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time."
-Richard Dawkins in Atheism quotes.

"Nature is not cruel, pitiless, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose."
-Richard Dawkins

"Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility."
-Richard Dawkins

"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."
-Richard Dawkins