Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound callous. I mean, even if I have nothing to offer, that doesn't matter, because that still doesn't… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You can't statistically explain improbable things like living creatures by saying that they must have been designed because you're still left to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think that a new kind of replicator has recently emerged on this very planet. It is staring us in the face.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution is a very, very important idea. It is the explanation for all of life - a stunningly simple, yet powerful explanation.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Very close cousins like humans and chimps have almost all their genes in common. Slightly less close cousins like humans and monkeys… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I just would like to say that over more than a quarter-century as a scientist and a believer, I find absolutely nothing… — 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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