“In the case of living machinery, the ‘designer’ is unconscious natural selection, the blind watchmaker.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If I were God wanting to make a human being, I would do it by a more direct way rather than by… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In Britain, you don't usually learn about evolution until you are about 15. I should have thought that you should start at… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Darwinism is not a theory of random chance. It is a theory of random mutation plus non-random cumulative natural selection. Why, I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Creationists and Holocaust deniers are both very similar - both are denying what is a perfectly manifest fact. In the case of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Evolution is a fact. Beyond reasonable doubt, beyond serious doubt, beyond sane, informed, intelligent doubt, beyond doubt evolution is a fact...That didn't… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Our own existence once presented the greatest of all mysteries, but ... it is a mystery no longer because it is solved.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Granted, we may try to help our own family members because they share our DNA. Or help someone else in expectation that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't see that [Richard] Dawkins' basic account of evolution is incompatible with God's having designed it. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Natural selection is a beguiling counterfeiter of deliberate purpose.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
“much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
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