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
“My purpose is to examine the biology of selfishness and altruism.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person… — 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
Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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 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
I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I mean, in a way, I feel that one of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment. — 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
“Any creative intelligence, of sufficient complexity to design anything, comes into existence only as the end product of an extended process of… — 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
I think nobody would claim that random genetic drift is capable of producing adaptation, that is to say the illusion of design.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“... the reason why we find some things intuitively easy to grasp and others hard, is that our brains are themselves evolved… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it!” — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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