Biology Quotes by Richard Dawkins

We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.

— Richard Dawkins

I can handle heckling on evolution because it's my own field.

— Richard Dawkins

“My purpose is to examine the biology of selfishness and altruism.”

— Richard Dawkins

Evolution never looks to the future.

— Richard Dawkins

Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.

— Richard Dawkins

“evolution is blind to the future”

— Richard Dawkins

Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.

— Richard Dawkins

Have they discovered evolution yet?

— Richard Dawkins

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

— Richard Dawkins

Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.

— Richard Dawkins

There is a tendency for people to say evolution is only a theory. That is inappropriate.

— Richard Dawkins

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

— Richard Dawkins

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.

— Richard Dawkins

My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.

— Richard Dawkins

Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution.

— Richard Dawkins

I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed.

— Richard Dawkins

You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person…

— Richard Dawkins

Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of…

— Richard Dawkins

“Any creative intelligence, of sufficient complexity to design anything, comes into existence only as the end product of an extended process of…

— Richard Dawkins

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a…

— Richard Dawkins

“The currency used in the casino of evolution is survival, strictly gene survival, but for many purposes individual survival is a reasonable…

— Richard Dawkins

You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose…

— Richard Dawkins

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern…

— Richard Dawkins

What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a…

— Richard Dawkins

“A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles, I am…

— Richard Dawkins

Molecular genetics can show off some surprising relationships like, for example, the close relationship of whales to hippopotamuses, which I think nobody…

— Richard Dawkins

There is economics in biology, nothing is free, everything has to be paid for, there are costs as well as benefits to…

— Richard Dawkins

“If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten…

— Richard Dawkins

“Oh golly, Brer Fox, your forthright assertion—that evolutionary biology disproves the idea of a creator God—jeopardises the teaching of biology in science…

— Richard Dawkins

What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely…

— Richard Dawkins

Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but…

— Richard Dawkins

It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means…

— Richard Dawkins

“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes…

— Richard Dawkins

“... the reason why we find some things intuitively easy to grasp and others hard, is that our brains are themselves evolved…

— Richard Dawkins

I think we have got to start again and go right back to first principles. The argument I shall advance, surprising as…

— Richard Dawkins

If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God…

— Richard Dawkins

I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to…

— Richard Dawkins

“Evolution by natural selection is the explanation for why we exist. It is not something to guide our lives in our own…

— Richard Dawkins

“As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian.”

— Richard Dawkins

Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.

— Richard Dawkins