Richard Dawkins Quotes

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about...Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings, who don't have all the answers, to think that they do.

Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.

Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.

I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe. They may even wish not to have their beliefs disturbed by thought.

I have noticed that many who do not believe in God believe in everything else, even in the evil eye.

Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

I don't have a spiritual bone in my body; but what I am, is religious.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

I believe that dogma is often evil.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Some people, both scientists and religious people, deal with uncertainty by being certain. That is dangerous in the fundamentalists and it is dangerous in the fundamentalist scientists.

Religion in its essence requires theological arrogance.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

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

For the record, I believe in God, but I do not believe in religion, period.

True believers of Scientology seem to know with utmost certainty that they have found the answer to the deepest riddles of all time - they may or may not be right, but that kind of self-belief is very appealing.

Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.

Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.