"...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The……" — Richard Dawkins
"...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct."
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530 Quotes by Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins has 530 quotes on this site.
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Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose…
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It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so…
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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we…
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Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting…
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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons…
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I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
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Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
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Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you…
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Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.
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Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens…
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'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.
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Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and…
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It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time…
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There's no borderline for the things that I can say, do, and create....
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You know, these guys want to talk about God; 'Oh, I want to thank God. I want to thank God.'…
— Chael Sonnen
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Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard…
— Ioan Gruffudd
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To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are…
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I think the penalties are grossly unfair. I think it's borderline shameful.
— Matt Kenseth
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Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross…
— Christa Wolf
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I think most of us look at personal delights as somewhere between minimally important and borderline immoral. We like them,…
— Victoria Moran
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The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes…
— Henry Rollins
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I think it would be arrogant and borderline foolish to believe there's no other life forms that exist out there.
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