Richard Dawkins Quotes

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.

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

If there is a god, the only genuine friend he has is an atheist. He does not blame him for anything.

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.

God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?

I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.

I shall not convert you at the end of my argument. I think the argument is sound. I hold that belief in God is not merely as reasonable as other belief, or even a little or infinitely more probably true than other belief; I hold rather that unless you believe in God you can logically believe in nothing else.

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof.

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

God is not dead-He is merely unemployed.

Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism's coffin.

I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do.

Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists - like the painting experts hated the painter - hate God because He does exist.

The evening news made her wonder if God was dead; the morning sun made her believe He wasn't.

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

It never really occurred to me to believe in God.

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

i cannot be called upon to know a negative or to prove a negative. if there is a god and you prove it, that's fine. but you don't tell me you can't know that there isn't. i would say yes i know there isn't because i have been given no evidence.

As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods.

If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.

Death was far more certain than God.