Richard Dawkins Quotes about Atheism - Page 2

Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out to be identical to those of other scientists who straightforwardly call

Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out to be identical to those of other scientists who straightforwardly call themselves atheists.

Richard Dawkins

Religious, Atheist, Atheism

Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.146, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

Richard Dawkins

Religion, Atheism, Cosmos

Richard Dawkins (1995). “River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life”, Basic Books (AZ)

We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.

Richard Dawkins

Atheism, There Is No God, Prove

I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about what's true, I care about evidence, I care about evidence as the reason for knowing what is true. It is true that I come across rather passionate sometimes - and that's because I am passionate about the truth... I do get very impatient with humbug, with cant, with fakery, with charlatans.

Richard Dawkins

Knowing, Mind, Atheism

"Belief" Interview, www.bbc.co.uk. October 22, 2009.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

Richard Dawkins

Religion, Atheism, Morality

Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene”, p.3, Oxford University Press

Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the teapot, but that doesn't mean you treat the likelihood of its existence as being on all fours with its non-existence.

Richard Dawkins

Mean, Atheism, Orbit

I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content.

Richard Dawkins

Book, Loss, Atheism

Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to predict what will happen and when.

Richard Dawkins

Atheism, Energy, Matter

Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to criticize it (unfairly, given my original modest intention) or to carry it far beyond the limits of what I then thought justified. This was why I may have seemed to backtrack.

Richard Dawkins

Numbers, Atheism, Culture

Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt