Richard Dawkins Quotes

The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.

God is love. Yes or no? No.

The existence of a single atheist does not disprove the existence of God.

The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable as any mathematical proposition, while the other asserts that his existence is not demonstrable to the intellect.

No man has ceased to believe in God before having decided that he should not exist; no book would produce atheism, and no book can restore faith.

It does not seem to me that the evidence concerning the being of a God, and concerning immortality, is such as to enable us to assert anything in regard to either of these topics.

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

I don't see any sign of God in this world, in the place where we live and things we know. It can all be explained to my mind perfectly satisfactorily without God. But in the great darkness beyond this little spark of light where I live, of course there may be all kinds of things. There may be a god. So I'm really an agnostic.

Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.

For me, the existence of nonexistence of God is a nonissue.

If God exists, there's no way he's French

Question boldly even the existence of God.

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.

Either there is a God or there isn't. Both possibilities are frightening.

If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.

If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise they should just shut up about it.

I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.

What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.

The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed.

As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is no evidence that God exists - that this world is governed by a being of infinite goodness, wisdom and power, but I do not pretend to know.

It is philosophically impossible to be an atheist, since to be an atheist you must have infinite knowledge in order to know absolutely that there is no God. But to have infinite knowledge, you would have to be God yourself. It's hard to be God yourself and an atheist at the same time!

If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.