Richard Dawkins

Quotes

• “Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people need...”
• “It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to ...”
• “...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfw...”
• “Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off.Note: Dawkins was quoting a former editor of New Scienti...”
• “Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in sp...”
• “Don't kid yourself that you're going to live again after you're dead; you're not. Make the most of the one life you've g...”
• “Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of tim...”
• “Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.”
• “Science is the poetry of reality.”