Quotes from Richard Dawkins

Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well.

The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.

Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of pestilence as the wages of sin.

Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science.

To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error.

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.

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

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

Science is interesting, and if you don't agree, you can fvck off.

Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering.

There may be some deep questions about the cosmos that are forever beyond science. The mistake is to think they are therefore not beyond religion too.

Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."

Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction.

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

Religion is a distraction from true education.

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.

Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.

Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.

Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop,sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop