Quote

My God is not improbable to me. He has no need of a creation story for himself or to be fine-tuned by something else.

Richard Dawkins

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
Actor
Author
Biologist
Epistemologist
Essayist
Ethologist
Evolutionary Biologist
Geneticist
Science Communicator
Science Writer
Screenwriter
Kenya's capital
Clinton Richard Dawkins
Clinton Dawkins
C. Richard Dawkins
C. Dawkins
CR Dawkins
R. Dawkins
Need
Needs
Tuned
Something
Improbable
Creation
Fine
Story
Else
Stories

More quotes by Richard Dawkins

Image
Islamic myths are mostly actually plagiarized from the Christian ones, both biblically and in terms of modern creationism. If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.
Richard Dawkins
Image
Evolution has been observed. It's just that it hasn't been observed while it's happening.
Richard Dawkins
Image
The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals.
Richard Dawkins
Image
The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so complex evolve?' This is not an argument, it is simply an affirmation of incredulity.
Richard Dawkins
Image
We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.
Richard Dawkins
Image
We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the fossil record as though they were evidence against evolution
Richard Dawkins
Image
We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.
Richard Dawkins
Image
Effective searching procedures become, when the search-space is sufficiently large, indistinguishable from true creativity.
Richard Dawkins
Image
Yesterday's dangerous idea is today's orthodoxy and tomorrow's cliché.
Richard Dawkins
Image
[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life.
Richard Dawkins
Image
Organizing atheists is a bit like herding cats They are on the whole too intelligent and independent minded to lend themselves to being herded.
Richard Dawkins
Image
Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature.
Richard Dawkins
Image
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
Richard Dawkins
Image
It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.
Richard Dawkins
Image
[Invading Iraq] will unite the entire Arab world against the West.
Richard Dawkins
Image
Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.
Richard Dawkins
Image
... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.
Richard Dawkins
Image
Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge.
Richard Dawkins
Image
The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence … The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation.
Richard Dawkins
Image
I am utterly fed up with the respect we have been brainwashed into bestowing upon religion.
Richard Dawkins