Richard Dawkins Quotes

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth.

Science is but an image of the truth.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

Facts are often complicated.

Comedy's about things the way they are. It's about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it to be, and science is the same, really.

I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

I would like to uncover the secrets of the universe.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

What's interesting about science is that we're constantly discovering new things about the universe, about ourselves, about our bodies, about diseases, about the possibilities of the future. It's amazing. Science is one of the coolest things about being a human being - without a doubt.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.