Richard Dawkins

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Nice guys finish first.

The meme for blind faith has no peer as a means of disabling the critical faculty of the human mind.

Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get revised in the light of further evidence.

Books on evolution are often written with the implicit assumption that the author is explaining something to the reader.

I think a case can be made that the anthropocentric arrogance of religion is the most pernicious of all.

The universe is not obliged to make sense to you.

Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defense? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, they are more likely to take a scientific attitude to life.

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else should do all the work and that I should just sit back and enjoy it.

The world and all our lives are filled with things that are more remarkable than we can imagine.

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is our duty to demonstrate the power of science to the public.

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.

The human psyche has two great enemies: reality and compassion.

Mockery of this sort is permissible in the context of a critical discussion.

Natural selection is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life.

I want to claim that the argument from beauty is a good argument for the existence of God.

The only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.