"All life, all intelligence, all creativity and all 'design' anywhere in the universe, is the direct or indirect product of Darwinian natural selection...
Science is the poetry of reality.
More Richard Dawkins quotes
"Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, w...
"I love romantic poetry.
"The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
"So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. ...
"Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space....
"Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.
"I am passionate about the truth. Passion is very different from fundamentalism.
"Religion is a distraction from true education.
"It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they...
"There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.
"Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
"Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.
"Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
"It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and...