Richard Dawkins Quotes

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.

I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different things. I don't see science as relevant to the question of whether or not there's a God.

Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.

It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.

I don't believe in God.

A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it

There's been so much rhetoric in the past decade about how important religion is to being a good person, for people to say they don't believe in God.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.

I don't believe in a personal God, no. And I don't believe in resurrection as it is in the New Testament.

That's true that I'm "not religious as that term is conventionally understood," though I've never been an atheist. Atheism is an active faith; it says, "I believe there is no God." But I don't know what I believe. I was brought up a Lutheran in Jamestown, North Dakota. I have trouble with faith. I'm not proud of this. I don't think it makes me an intellectual. I would believe if I could, and I may be able to before it's over. I would welcome that.

God! Thou art love! I build my faith on that.

I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.

About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.

God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world