Richard Dawkins Quotes about Doubt

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The less you think, the more you believe.

The less you think, the more you believe.

Richard Dawkins

Believe, Thinking, Doubt

'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.

Richard Dawkins

Doubt, Atheism, Hats

If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.

Richard Dawkins

Thinking, Years, Doubt

Richard Dawkins (2009). “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.

Richard Dawkins

Doubt, Window, Gravity

I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.

Richard Dawkins

Doubt, Never Quit, Fiction

Source: newrepublic.com

The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence … The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation.

Richard Dawkins

Strong, Doubt, Needs

Richard Dawkins (2006). “The Selfish Gene”, p.198, Oxford University Press, USA

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.

Richard Dawkins

Doubt, Doe, Needs

No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.

Richard Dawkins

Music, Moving, Doubt

Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I'm sure Obama is an atheist, I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.

Richard Dawkins

Atheist, Doubt, Pope

Interview with Bill Maher, 2013.