E. O. Wilson Quotes

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

I'm very interested in Darwinism and how that affects us on a day-to-day level. But I also have a deep interest in theology and the spiritual.

The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.

Atheistic evolution isn't an intelligent belief, as atheists would have the black community believe.

I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

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.

Sadly, I have found that even evolution's most staunch believers are afraid to debate, because they know that their case for atheism and evolution is less than extremely weak.

I think there's nothing about evolution in the Bible; I think this is a statement of religious insecurity. But people have their beliefs.

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

I have faith in God and not that we have evolved from a rock, not from worshiping the environment or endangered bugs.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

You seem much too intelligent to believe in God.

Fear first made gods in the world.

I don’t want to offend anyone of faith, but I think that science has some more compelling explanation than a divine creator

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

I'm culturally Jewish but, like most scientists, an atheist: I don't believe there's a God or supernatural world. Buddhism offers guidance on what to do in a world without God: It opines that truly being present in the world‚ experiencing and hanging out with your loved ones, provides all the significance you could want.

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.

They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.

There is no way you can harmonize neo-Darwinism and Christianity.

Don't be misled by those who claim God doesn't exist, because He does.

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.