At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes. The lifetimes of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
DNA is ROM. It can be read millions of times over, but only written to once - when it is first assembled… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Granted, we may try to help our own family members because they share our DNA. Or help someone else in expectation that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To invoke the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing - for it leaves… — 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