Richard Dawkins Quotes

Gravity doesn't lie.

Gravity has taken over me from time to time. But otherwise than that, I'm blessed with good health. That's the bottom line.

Newton came up with Newton's laws of motion and gravity. They worked. They were working.

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it.

Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is a primary fact of the inner life, the most difficult fact with which we must live.

What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.

Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.

We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true.

I hate not knowing what to believe anymore. I hate not knowing what's real.

Newton did not know what happened to the apple, and I can prove this when the next eclipse comes.

How does gravity work? And if it were to cease suddenly, would certain restaurants still require a jacket?

As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to to maintain the existence of Nothing.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

You can do anything when it's not real. When it is real, nothing breaks your fall. Nothing gets between you and the ground.

Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.