Richard Dawkins Quotes

Some things are beyond human understanding.

It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.

The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

The mystery of our existence—I have no faith in any attempted explanation of it. It is all a dark, unfathomed profound.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.

It is beyond my apprehension.

Nothing important is completely explicable.

Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem we men can never hope to solve.

How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it would be ridiculous to propose that what we know merits reverence. What we know merits any one of a number of things, but it stands to reason reverence isn't one of them. In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

Some things were beyond understanding.

The universe is still a place of mystery and wonder.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

Mystery hovers over all things here below.

The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.