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Purpose 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.…
- Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be…
- Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose
- 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 universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing…
- The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.
- Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the…
- Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the…
- Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.
More Purpose Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing… — Chinua Achebe
- The purpose of all wars, is peace. — Saint Augustine
- There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge,… — Charles Babbage
- I think it's important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It's Congress giving permission to the federal government to… — Michele Bachmann
- Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just… — Antonio Banderas
- The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where… — Henry Adams
- What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the… — Edward Abbey
- I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. — Dave Barry