Richard Dawkins Quotes

What I like to think, and perhaps it is an adolescent thought, is that anything can happen. As long as you think that anything can happen, it will. We're all allowed to have our dreams.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

I dwell in possibility.

In retrospect, everything is finite, but prospectively, there are infinite possibilities. I guess that's what makes life hopeful.

Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

As children we believe that anything is possible, the trick is to never forget it.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

Anything is possible, and that’s something we should not lose sight of. The inspiration and the permission to dream is huge.

I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.

There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?

We're all dreamers.

I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.

Darkness is full of possibility.

I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.