Body Quote by Richard Dawkins

“Prediction in a complex world is a chancy business. Every decision that a survival machine takes is a gamble, and it is the business…

— Richard Dawkins

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

When we talk about genes for anything, like a gene for being gay or a gene for being aggressive or something of that sort,…

— Richard Dawkins

We have sexual lust even though we know perfectly well that, because we're using contraception, it is not going to result in the propagation…

— Richard Dawkins

They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have…

— Richard Dawkins

Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But…

— Richard Dawkins

We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills…

— Richard Dawkins

In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote because they…

— Richard Dawkins

There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it sociobiology or…

— Richard Dawkins

Suppose that there's a gene that makes you gay if you were bottle-fed but that has some completely different effect if you were breast-fed.…

— Richard Dawkins

What are all of us but self-reproducing robots? We have been put together by our genes and what we do is roam the world…

— Richard Dawkins

“The genes are master programmers, and they are programming for their lives.”

— Richard Dawkins