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Known Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to explain everything about…
- As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change our minds, and…
- We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.
- Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies…
- We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me…
- We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known what that means, and we think evolution…
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- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont… — Isaac Asimov
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- God is best known in not knowing him. — Saint Augustine
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
- It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do… — Douglas Adams
- I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way… — Tallulah Bankhead
- I can tell you that I'd rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I've known. — Bob Barker
- On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. — Christiaan Barnard
- Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking. — Bernard Baruch
- Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been… — Bernard Baruch