Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.Richard Dawkins
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.Richard Dawkins
It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe.Richard Dawkins
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.Richard Dawkins
Science is not a religion. If it were, we would have a much easier time raising money.Richard Dawkins
Evolution is random; it has no long-term goals. Nature does not plan ahead.Richard Dawkins
An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: 'I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one.' I can't help feeling that such a position, though logically sound, would have left one feeling pretty unsatisfied, and that although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.Richard Dawkins
Different species are not just different from each other. They become more different from each other with time.Richard Dawkins
If you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a common good, you can expect little help from biological nature.Richard Dawkins
It is easy to see how the necessary conditions for cumulative selection could fail to be met on a planet.Richard Dawkins
Improbable things happen all the time. It's the improbable that's probable.Richard Dawkins