Richard Dawkins

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.

The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.

Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.

I don't do formal debates, because formal debates where you have two people up on a stage in equal status, and each of them is given 20 minutes to give their point of view, and then 10 minutes for a rebuttal, or whatever, that creates the illusion that you really do have here two equal points of view of equal scientific standing.

Either Jesus had a father, or he didn't. The question is a scientific one, and scientific evidence, if any were available, would be used to settle it.

A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.

There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story.

The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.

I think it's misleading to use a word like 'God' in the way Einstein did. I'm sorry that Einstein did. I think he was asking for trouble, and he certainly was misunderstood.

I would like to find a way in which people in Saudi Arabia could learn that they can be something other than a Muslim. Some people may not realize this. Of course, there is the problem that you can get in trouble or get stoned.