Richard Dawkins Quotes

The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.
The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful.
The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning.
The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.
The very large brain that humans have, plus the things that go along with it - language, art, science - seemed to have evolved only once. The eye, by contrast, independently evolved 40 times. So, if you were to 'replay' evolution, the eye would almost certainly appear again, whereas the big brain probably wouldn't.
The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two miracles.
The word 'excess' has no meaning for a male.
The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place.
There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.
There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists.
There are people who try to get atheists to form a sort of atheist church and have atheist community singsongs and things. I don't see the need for that, but if people want to do it, why shouldn't they?
There are quite a lot of YouTube clips of me that have gone viral. One that I think of is of a young woman at a lecture I was giving - she came from Liberty University, which is a ludicrous religious institution. She said, 'What if you are wrong?' and I answered that rather briefly, and that's gone viral.
There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say to 140 characters, and it's something that I quite enjoy attempting to do.
There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. We shouldn't be too surprised about that because we're evolved to understand things that move at a medium pace at a medium scale. We can't cope with the very tiny scale of quantum physics or the very large scale of relativity.
There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a scientist, and not an idiot.
There is something cheap about magic that works just because it is magic.
There's a mystical strain in every country, and eclipses are likely to bring that out.
There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that physicists understand it better than I do.
There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story.
To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.
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