After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isnโt it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am askedโas I am surprisingly oftenโwhy I bother to get up in the mornings.
Richard DawkinsSociety bends over backward to be accommodating to religious sensibilities but not to other kinds of sensibilities. If I say something offensive to religious people, I'll be universally censured, including by many atheists.
Richard DawkinsTwo religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong.
Richard DawkinsI like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe it as a polarizing book or as an aggressive book, it's just that very often they haven't read it.
Richard DawkinsReligious people are atheists about all other gods, atheists only take it one god further.
Richard Dawkins