Richard Dawkins

"I have become increasingly convinced that the argument from design is a genuinely bad argument."

"The internet has revolutionized the way we communicate and share ideas."

"Books have changed more slowly than any other medium."

"We evolved to survive in small hunter-gatherer groups, not in modern society."

"Tolerance of intolerance is not a virtue."

"The process of going from organisms to people is one of the genuinely difficult intellectual achievements."

"DNA is a code, but not a blueprint."

"Evolution is true, whether or not you like its implications."

"The beauty of the natural world is even greater when we understand the processes that created it."

"We should teach our children to question authority and think for themselves."

"The burden of proof lies with those making the claim, not those dismissing it."

"I'm an atheist because I think the evidence does not support the proposition that god exists."

"The more you understand the actual science, the stronger is the evidence for the fact of evolution."

"Reality is a scientific matter, not a religious one."

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in."

"The universe operates according to laws of physics."

"Genes have no foresight; they just replicate."

"A designer would be an even greater mystery than the universe itself."

"The God Hypothesis has no explanatory power."

"We should teach science not religion in science classes."

"Moral philosophy is interesting and important, but it's not dependent on religion."

"The universe is indifferent to our desires, hopes, and dreams."

"Evolution explains the apparent design in nature without invoking a designer."

"We should be humble in the face of nature's complexity."

"Education is the best remedy for ignorance."

"The natural world is the best teacher if we listen carefully."

"We are made of atoms, like the rest of the universe."

"Life has no meaning outside of what we create for ourselves."

"Religion claims to answer questions that science cannot answer."

"The genome is not a blueprint; it's more like a recipe."