Purpose Quotes by Richard Dawkins

If you are asking me if my more global purpose is a battle against religion, it is.

— Richard Dawkins

'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.

— Richard Dawkins

The word 'excess' has no meaning for a male.

— Richard Dawkins

Who are we to say that that was an odd way to do it? I don't think that it is God's purpose…

— Richard Dawkins

Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose

— Richard Dawkins

Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.

— Richard Dawkins

Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes, we find it convenient to use words in different senses.

— Richard Dawkins

The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame…

— Richard Dawkins

The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.

— Richard Dawkins

Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view.…

— Richard Dawkins

Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the…

— Richard Dawkins

Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's…

— Richard Dawkins

You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.'…

— Richard Dawkins

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that…

— Richard Dawkins

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil,…

— Richard Dawkins

We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what…

— Richard Dawkins

I'm easily persuaded that a really good novelist who gets inside somebody else's head could be serving a valuable purpose. I enjoy…

— Richard Dawkins

Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are…

— Richard Dawkins

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes…

— Richard Dawkins

If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless…

— Richard Dawkins

Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently…

— Richard Dawkins

“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes…

— Richard Dawkins