Richard Dawkins Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

  Richard Dawkins

  God, Christian, Atheist

  "Militant Atheism". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2002.

• You believe that all humanity came from Adam and Eve, and humans have not evolved at all since. So tell me; between the two of them, which was black, which was white, and which was Asian?

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Two, White

• I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.

  Richard Dawkins

  Understanding, Humanity, Alive

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.420, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.

  Richard Dawkins

  Humanity, Survival, Entity

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.423, Oxford University Press

• Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

  Richard Dawkins

  Cute, Humility, Winning

• It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Mad Cow Disease, Evil

  "Is Science a Religion?". Humanist, www.skeptical-science.com. January/February 1997.

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