Richard Dawkins

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#evolution #existence #natural-selection #nature

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it? ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#good #religion #science #inspirational

We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#humor #humor

The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#reality #science #science

I am not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where facts are concerned. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#religion

The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#divine #reality #religion #science #universe

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies? ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#any #bottom #evidence #fairies #garden

Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#ignorance #random #science #science

It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#science #science

I know that not all my readers like my digressions, but the research that has been done on Caenorhabditis elegans is such a ringing triumph of science that you aren't going to stop me. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#science #science