Richard Dawkins Quotes

The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.

The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.

There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid the world of gods but "bared the miracles." (That is, explained the miracles. - ed.) Oddly enough, we must be satisfied to acknowledge the "miracle" without there being any legitimate way for us to approach it . I am forced to add that just to keep you from thinking that -weakened by age-I have fallen prey to the clergy.

Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.

The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood.

The second coming was an event in the spiritual, and not in the natural world.

If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?”… I am not dismayed by ultimate mysteries… I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph.

There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.

The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.

there have been too many events in my life, and in the lives of my friends, which have defied any kind of scientific explanation. Science does not have appropriate tools for the dissection of the spirit.

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.

Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works.

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout the ages, that I could not choose a more appropriate subject for demonstrating how, with the method I am using, we can arrive at knowledge not possessed at all by those whose writings are available to us.

Science is the key which unlocks the storehouses of nature.

The spiritual world is hidden and perfectly revealed in the physical world.

There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle

I love the supernatural in storytelling. The Twilight Zone was a huge influence on me, in terms of writing and storytelling, where you're not restricted to the parameters of reality to tell your tale.

The universe works in mysterious ways and for me it worked out perfectly. With all respect to everybody else, Aaron Sorkin is and was The West Wing, full stop. There's no West Wing without him.

I think that there is no supernatural dimension. The natural world is quite wonderful enough. The more we know about it, the much more wonderful it is than any supernatural proposition.

No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.

Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.

Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God.