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
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is… — 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
Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
An intelligent couple can read their Darwin and know that the ultimate reason for their sexual urges is procreation. They know that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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 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
