“Natural selection is a beguiling counterfeiter of deliberate purpose.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
By being outside of nature, God is also outside of space and time. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I do object to the assumption that anything that might be outside of nature is ruled out of the conversation. That's an… — 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
“Pantheists don’t believe in a supernatural God at all, but use the word God as a non-supernatural synonym for Nature, or for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Religion, is a mistake of geography. If you where born in America you are Christan, if you where born in the middle… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Natural selection builds child brains with a tendency to believe whatever their parents and tribal elders tell them. Such trusting obedience is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
On one planet [earth], and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules that would normally make nothing more complicated than… — 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
We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workable alternative to chance that has ever… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Evolution by natural selection is the explanation for why we exist. It is not something to guide our lives in our own… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Let us remind ourselves of the terminology. A theist believes in a supernatural intelligence who, in addition to his main work of… — 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
“If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity. — 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
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
For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene. — 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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