"When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human……" — Richard Dawkins

"When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge."

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530 Quotes by Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins has 530 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose…
It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so…
I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we…
Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting…
Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons…
I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you…
Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.
Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens…
'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.

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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
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