Richard Dawkins Quotes

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

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.

Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith.

The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

No evidence or proof of the existence of a God has been found in the phenomena of nature, based on experience.

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.

I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.

It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason

Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God .

Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to do is develop a language that will enable us to talk about God beyond the, what I think, are sterile categories of theism and atheism.

Atheism is the last word of theism.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

What are the chances there is a God, really?

I have to recognize that I am agnostic.

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.