Richard Dawkins

Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something to do.

I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.

Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.