Richard Dawkins Quotes

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.

Everything that you can imagine is going on is going on.

In Belgrade, everything is possible.

To be existing at all is beautiful simply because of how complicated and unexplainable being alive really is.

I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand.

The world is not always ours to understand.

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

And to me, if you really want to rediscover wonder, you need to step outside of that tiny, terrified space of rightness and look around at each other and look out at the vastness and complexity and mystery of the universe and be able to say, “Wow, I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity.

Some things were beyond understanding.

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is no human solution. Mystery's offspring is not frustration but awe, and that sense of awe grows in tandem with knowledge.

There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.

Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.

Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.

It is beyond my apprehension.

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

Nothing important is completely explicable.

It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.