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Design Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view. Yet the living…
- A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand…
- I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that…
- Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's…
- If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such…
- The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful illusion of deliberate…
- Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.
- The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing…
- Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a…
- Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because…
- It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process -…
- People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.
More Design Quotes
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams
- Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. — Tyra Banks