Richard Dawkins Quotes

Doesn't assuming that an intelligence created these perfect conditions require far less faith than believing that a life-sustaining Earth just happened to beat the inconceivable odds to come into being?

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.

Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled.

There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.

I don't believe in coincidences.

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.

Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense design.

The only distinct meaning of the word "natural" is stated, fixed, or settled; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, i.e. to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once.

Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck, timing and accident.

Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.

Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be supposed to have been designed by an idiot.

Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's Pipe. Far from terminating the vicious regress, God aggravates it with a vengeance.

I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.

Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.

In the past few months I've become religious, I've started to believe in god, creationism and intelligent design, and the reason that I now believe in god and creationism and intelligent design is because of Professor Richard Dawkins. Because when I look at something as complex and intricate and beautiful as Professor Richard Dawkins, I don't think that just could've evolved by chance! Professor Richard Dawkins was put there by god to test us, like fossils. And facts.

There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.

In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we go on believing in the continuity of things, in causation and meaning. But we live on a broken mirror, and fresh cracks appear in its surface every day.

When you can dump a load of bricks on a corner lot, and let me watch them arrange themselves into a house - when you can empty a handful of springs and wheels and screws on my desk, and let me see them gather themselves together into a watch - it will be easier for me to believe that all these thousands of worlds could have been created, balanced, and set to moving in their separate orbits, all without any directing intelligence at all.