Richard Dawkins

“If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.”

“Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.”

“The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the sins that all we unborn generations might have been contemplating in the future. Adam's sin is perhaps mitigated by the extenuating circumstance that he didn't exist.”

“Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.”

“I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.”

“Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.”