Quotes from Richard Dawkins

The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous.

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.

Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil.

Atheists sometimes come across as a bit arrogant in this regard, and characterizing faith as something only an idiot would attach themselves to.

Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

The fear of Hell is a very powerful motivation.

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isnt it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am askedas I am surprisingly oftenwhy I bother to get up in the mornings.

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.

It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests.