I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence. — 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 J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian.” — 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
Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose — 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
I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will. — 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
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
The beauty of evolution is that it does provide an explanation of how you can get complexity out of simplicity. It does… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It would be so nice if those who oppose evolution would take a tiny bit of trouble to learn the merest rudiments… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“That scientifically savvy philosopher Daniel Dennett pointed out that evolution counters one of the oldest ideas we have: 'the idea that it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human… — 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
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 a very, very important idea. It is the explanation for all of life - a stunningly simple, yet powerful explanation.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Prediction in a complex world is a chancy business. Every decision that a survival machine takes is a gamble, and it is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Evolution sceptic: Professor Haldane, even given the billions of years that you say were available for evolution, I simply cannot believe it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of… — 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
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
“Evolution is a trajectory through multidimensional space, in which every step of the way has to represent a body capable of surviving… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining… — 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.” — 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
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
