Control freak Quotes 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.

— 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…

— Richard Dawkins

We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

— 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…

— 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…

— Richard Dawkins

Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.

— 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,…

— Richard Dawkins

The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops…

— 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,…

— 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— Richard Dawkins