"Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution i...
Evolution never looks to the future.
More Richard Dawkins quotes
"All life, all intelligence, all creativity and all 'design' anywhere in the universe, is the direct or indirect product of Darwinian natural selection...
"If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolution, you might find a fairly substantial fraction...
"Evolution by natural selection is the explanation for why we exist. It is not something to guide our lives in our own society. If we were to be guided...
"Evolution by natural selection is the explanation for why we exist. It is not something to guide our lives in our own society. If we were to be guided...
"It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, b...
"There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.
"A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles, I am now about to...
"The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
"We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
"If the second dinosaur to the left of the tall cycad tree had not happened to sneeze and thereby fail to catch the tiny, shrew-like ancestor of all th...
"I am fascinated by the evolution of language, and how local versions diverge to become dialects like Cornish English and Geordie and then imperceptibl...
"Dan Nilsson even remarks of compound eyes that ‘It is only a small exaggeration to say that evolution seems to be fighting a desperate battle to impro...
"The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sen...
"[W]e can calculate our way into regions of miraculous improbability far greater than we can imagine as plausible. Let's look at this matter of what we...