Richard Dawkins Quotes

I think it's misleading to use a word like 'God' in the way Einstein did. I'm sorry that Einstein did. I think he was asking for trouble, and he certainly was misunderstood.

My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.

If you can define what God is, I can tell you whether I believe in it.

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

What are the chances there is a God, really?

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

I definitely believe in God.

If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all …. whether there exists a God or not ... men's moral duties will always be the same so long as they possess their own nature

As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.

I know God is real.

I believe in a kind of God. I think all scientists, in a way, believe in a certain God, in a certain order of nature.

In the Einstein way, I can't believe in a universe that doesn't have some sort of prime mover, identical with all of created nature. I have a whole lot of a harder time with supposing the fine print of the Torah was a direct revelation.

I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

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

What is the origin of God?

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.

For me, I've always believed that there was a God. I've always believed that God created the heavens and earth - so, for me it's not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.

For all the creationists out there, Darwin's just an atheist. But he was actually agnostic.