--- title: "13 Blind Quotes By Richard Dawkins" description: "13 Blind quotes by Richard Dawkins. Plus more from Richard Dawkins and more Blind sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b56/richard-dawkins-115_biology_evolution-is-blind-to-the-future-1815097_1815097.jpg" --- > [“evolution is blind to the future”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/evolution-is-blind-to-the-future/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b56/richard-dawkins-115_biology_evolution-is-blind-to-the-future-1815097_1815097.jpg) > [The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-only-watchmaker-is-the-blind-forces-of-physics/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e92/richard-dawkins-115_blind_the-only-watchmaker-is-the-blind-forces_2914011.jpg) > [The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-meme-for-blind-faith-secures-its-own-perpetuation-by-the-simple/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53f/richard-dawkins-115_blind_the-meme-for-blind-faith-secures-its-own_1905446.jpg) > [Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/life-results-from-the-non-random-survival-of-randomly-varying/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3c/richard-dawkins-115_blind_life-results-from-the-non-random-surviva_537760.jpg) > [Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/real-life-seeks-the-gentle-slopes-at-the-back-of-mount-improbable/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81c/richard-dawkins-115_blind_real-life-seeks-the-gentle-slopes-at-the_2604001.jpg) > [If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/if-a-healing-technique-is-demonstrated-to-have-curative-properties-in/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cd/richard-dawkins-115_alternatives_if-a-healing-technique-is-demonstrated-t_1358743.jpg) > [The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-more-statistically-improbable-a-thing-is-the-less-we-can-believe-2/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c99/richard-dawkins-115_alternatives_the-more-statistically-improbable-a-thin_3168100.jpg) > [The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-universe-we-observe-has-precisely-the-properties-we-should-expect/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55d/richard-dawkins-115_blind_the-universe-we-observe-has-precisely-th_2019529.jpg) > [If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/if-the-universe-were-just-electrons-and-selfish-genes-meaningless/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77f/richard-dawkins-115_blind_if-the-universe-were-just-electrons-and_2002828.jpg) > [Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/natural-selection-is-the-blind-watchmaker-blind-because-it-does-not/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/660/richard-dawkins-115_appearance_natural-selection-is-the-blind-watchmake_2617442.jpg) > [Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/natural-selection-the-blind-unconscious-automatic-process-which/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e21/richard-dawkins-115_blind_natural-selection-the-blind-unconscious_411159.jpg) > [Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/either-it-is-true-that-a-medicine-works-or-it-isn-t-it-cannot-be/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83c/richard-dawkins-115_alas_either-it-is-true-that-a-medicine-works_244346.jpg) > [The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-human-psyche-has-two-great-sicknesses-the-urge-to-carry-vendetta-3/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/635/richard-dawkins-115_blind_the-human-psyche-has-two-great-sicknesse_2522495.jpg) ## Other authors on Blind - [Helen Keller 39 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blind/helen-keller/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 30 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blind/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b002/author-chris-mccausland-6393.jpg) Chris McCausland 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blind/chris-mccausland/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-jose-saramago-53213.jpg) Jose Saramago 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blind/jos-saramago/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-mahatma-gandhi-62675.jpg) Mahatma Gandhi 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blind/mahatma-gandhi/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-green-51499.jpg) John Green 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blind/john-green/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-lauren-oliver-58931.jpg) Lauren Oliver 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blind/lauren-oliver/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-cassandra-clare-21529.jpg) Cassandra Clare 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blind/cassandra-clare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-victor-hugo-93504.jpg) Victor Hugo 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blind/victor-hugo/) - [Martin Luther King, Jr 11 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blind/martin-luther-king-jr/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rumi-81702.jpg) Rumi 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blind/rumi/) - [Mark Twain 10 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blind/mark-twain/) ## More by Richard Dawkins > [At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/at-the-deepest-level-all-living-things-that-have-ever-been-looked-at/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-word-mundane-has-come-to-mean-boring-and-dull-and-it-really/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-animals-are-the-most-complicated-things-in-the-known-universe/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-fundamentalist-kurt-wise-proclaims-that-all-the-evidence-in-the/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/i-have-found-it-an-amusing-strategy-when-asked-whether-i-am-an/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/religions-do-make-claims-about-the-universe-the-same-kinds-of-claims/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/much-of-the-bible-is-not-systematically-evil-but-just-plain-weird-as/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-recurrent-laryngeal-nerve-which-runs-from-the-head-to-the-voice/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-roman-catholic-church-is-an-institution-for-whose-gains-the/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/let-us-understand-what-our-own-selfish-genes-are-up-to-because-we-may/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/what-s-going-to-happen-when-i-die-i-may-be-buried-or-i-may-be/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/or-why-it-is-acceptable-to-train-fast-runners-and-high-jumpers-but/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-have-seen-that-living-things-are-too-improbable-and-too/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [“We will not go quietly away. If in the future that requires violence”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-will-not-go-quietly-away-if-in-the-future-that-requires-violence/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/it-s-a-truly-disgusting-idea-that-the-creator-of-the-universe-capable/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blind/richard-dawkins/#itemlist", "name": "13 Blind Quotes By Richard Dawkins", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“evolution is blind to the future”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Richard Dawkins" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/evolution-is-blind-to-the-future/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b56/richard-dawkins-115_biology_evolution-is-blind-to-the-future-1815097_1815097.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b56/richard-dawkins-115_biology_evolution-is-blind-to-the-future-1815097_1815097.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b56/richard-dawkins-115_biology_evolution-is-blind-to-the-future-1815097_1815097.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“evolution is blind to the future” — Richard Dawkins", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Richard Dawkins" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-only-watchmaker-is-the-blind-forces-of-physics/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e92/richard-dawkins-115_blind_the-only-watchmaker-is-the-blind-forces_2914011.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e92/richard-dawkins-115_blind_the-only-watchmaker-is-the-blind-forces_2914011.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e92/richard-dawkins-115_blind_the-only-watchmaker-is-the-blind-forces_2914011.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.” — Richard Dawkins", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Richard Dawkins" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-meme-for-blind-faith-secures-its-own-perpetuation-by-the-simple/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53f/richard-dawkins-115_blind_the-meme-for-blind-faith-secures-its-own_1905446.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53f/richard-dawkins-115_blind_the-meme-for-blind-faith-secures-its-own_1905446.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53f/richard-dawkins-115_blind_the-meme-for-blind-faith-secures-its-own_1905446.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging…” — Richard Dawkins", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. 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Such a universe would be neither evil nor good in intention ... 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