Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only …

Richard Dawkins
389 citations
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection. ✨ The atheist. Interview with Gordy Slack, www.salon.com. April 30, 2005.
Humor
19

More Author Quotes

I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine. ✨ God vs. Science. Interview with David Van Biema, content.time.com. November 5, 2006.
Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others. ✨ Richard Dawkins (200 … ▶
I great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it feels reduced to using threats in order to propagate those beliefs.
Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime. ✨ Twitter post from Aug 28, 2013
Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get him there by different routes. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delus … ▶

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes