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Living 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…
- We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for.…
- Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely…
- 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…
- At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.
- Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say something about bad…
- You could give Aristotle a tutorial and you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time…
- The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is…
- What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a 'spark of life.' It is information, words,…
- If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room…
More Living Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov