Richard Dawkins

The scientific method is the best way to understand the world.

The beauty of the natural world is enhanced by our understanding of it.

The idea of God is a comfort blanket for adults.

We are all descended from a common ancestor.

The universe is a machine, and we are just cogs in it.

The only way to understand the world is to question everything.

The selfish gene is not a theory of human selfishness.

The world is a beautiful place, and we should appreciate it.

The idea of a creator God is a primitive superstition.

Science is the ultimate truth.

We are survival machines—robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.

By all accounts, religious fundamentalists are growing in numbers and influence, and they are making common cause with political conservatives in the United States.

The God hypothesis is a rather speculative hypothesis of an untestable kind.

Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see what it makes; it makes the watches by natural selection.

Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.

Evolution is a fact. Beyond reasonable doubt, beyond serious doubt, beyond sane, informed, intelligent doubt, beyond doubt evolution is a fact.

Whenever I hear of a politician supporting creationism, I think: 'Wouldn't it be great if we could clone this guy?'

I am not attacking any particular version of God or gods. I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything supernatural, wherever and whenever they have been or will be invented.

One of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.