I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries, we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Thus the creationist's favourite question "What is the use of half an eye?" Actually, this is a lightweight question, a doddle to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People will say, "You're never going to convince me that something as complicated as an eye could come about by sheer chance."… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The very large brain that humans have, plus the things that go along with it - language, art, science - seemed to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is economics in biology, nothing is free, everything has to be paid for, there are costs as well as benefits to… — 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
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you'd never be confident of things like 'My wife loves… — 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