Richard Dawkins Quotes

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.

I don't think I have any particular problem with God.

I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.

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

What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.

Oh, I don't talk about God.

I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

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

I consider myself a religious person, but when it comes to God and faith, I don't know. I guess that means I'm agnostic.

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.

Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they're about different things, science is about the way the world works and religion is about [...] miracles. [...] And in any case, if you ask most ordinary people in church or in a mosque why they believe, it's almost certainly got something to do with the belief that God does wonderful things, that God intervenes, that God heals the sick, that God answers prayers, God forgives sins.

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism's coffin.

I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist. And they tell me that if I wanted to devote my life to learning what they've learned, I'd find quarks and God just like they did.

I love the idea of God, but it's not stylistically in keeping with the way I function. I would describe myself as an enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God. I can see that people who believe in God are happier. ... But I doubt.

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.

Who couldn't believe there's a God?

I am an agnostic as to the question of God.