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
We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The beauty of evolution is that it does provide an explanation of how you can get complexity out of simplicity. It does… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What are all of us but self-reproducing robots? We have been put together by our genes and what we do is roam… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Religion can endanger the life of the pious individual, as well as the lives of others.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Steve Grand is the creator of what I think is the nearest approach to artificial life so far, and his first book,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
From my perspective, God cannot be completely contained within nature, and therefore God's existence is outside of science's ability to really weigh… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a 'spark of life.' It… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I remember at the age of six regaling my poor little sister with stories about the planets, and how far away they… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use, and that… — 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
“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74%… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“And some scientists and other intellectuals are convinced—too eagerly in my view—that the question of God's existence belongs in the forever inaccessible… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now,… — 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
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