--- title: "7 Cells Quotes By Richard Dawkins" description: "7 Cells quotes by Richard Dawkins. Plus more from Richard Dawkins and more Cells sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03e/richard-dawkins-115_cases_for-me-moral-questions-such-as-stem-cell_349590.jpg" --- > [For me, moral questions such as stem-cell research turn upon whether suffering is caused. In this case, clearly none is. The embryos…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/for-me-moral-questions-such-as-stem-cell-research-turn-upon-whether/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03e/richard-dawkins-115_cases_for-me-moral-questions-such-as-stem-cell_349590.jpg) > [When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/when-you-plant-a-fertile-meme-in-my-mind-you-literally-parasitize-my/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/230/richard-dawkins-115_brain_when-you-plant-a-fertile-meme-in-my-mind_571948.jpg) > [I speak as a private citizen and not as a representative of the Executive Branch of the United States government. The impression…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/i-speak-as-a-private-citizen-and-not-as-a-representative-of-the/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ad/richard-dawkins-115_approach_i-speak-as-a-private-citizen-and-not-as_1035681.jpg) > [You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/you-contain-a-trillion-copies-of-a-large-textual-document-written-in/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/134/richard-dawkins-115_accurate_you-contain-a-trillion-copies-of-a-large_2066018.jpg) > [DNA is ROM. It can be read millions of times over, but only written to once - when it is first assembled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/dna-is-rom-it-can-be-read-millions-of-times-over-but-only-written-to/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ea/richard-dawkins-115_birth_dna-is-rom-it-can-be-read-millions-of-ti_2207222.jpg) > [For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/for-the-first-half-of-geological-time-our-ancestors-were-bacteria/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d5/richard-dawkins-115_bacteria_for-the-first-half-of-geological-time-ou_2558650.jpg) > [There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/there-is-enough-information-capacity-in-a-single-human-cell-to-store/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/101/richard-dawkins-115_capacity_there-is-enough-information-capacity-in_2574506.jpg) ## Other authors on Cells ## 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/cells/richard-dawkins/#itemlist", "name": "7 Cells Quotes By Richard Dawkins", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For me, moral questions such as stem-cell research turn upon whether suffering is caused. 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