“Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it!” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think there could be a very large number who are creationists by default. Those are the people I want to reach. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution has been observed. It's just that it hasn't been observed while it's happening. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work. — 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… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“With only a little imagination we can see the gene as sitting at the centre of a radiating web of extended phenotypic… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The earliest form of natural selection was simply a selection of stable forms and a rejection of unstable ones. There is no… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The currency used in the casino of evolution is survival, strictly gene survival, but for many purposes individual survival is a reasonable… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think that a new kind of replicator has recently emerged on this very planet. It is staring us in the face.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The genes are master programmers, and they are programming for their lives.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Darwin’s ‘survival of the fittest’ is really a special case of a more general law of survival of the stable.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“A gene is defined as any portion of chromosomal material that potentially lasts for enough generations to serve as a unit of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive on the stuff… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“If the second dinosaur to the left of the tall cycad tree had not happened to sneeze and thereby fail to catch… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“When challenged by a zealous Popperian to say how evolution could ever be falsified, J. B. S. Haldane famously growled: 'Fossil rabbits… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Evolutionary psychologists suggest that, just as the eye is an evolved organ for seeing, and the wing an evolved organ for flying,… — 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
