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Richard Dawkins Quotes about Evolution

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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

Richard Dawkins

Jumping, Evolution, Building

Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.

Richard Dawkins

Evolution, Hostile

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.

Richard Dawkins

Orangutans, Apes, Evolution

Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.

Richard Dawkins

Culture, Belief, Evolution

Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born

Richard Dawkins

People, Sahara, Evolution

Unweaving the Rainbow ch. 1 (1998)

We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.

Richard Dawkins

Lucky, Sahara, Evolution

Unweaving the Rainbow ch. 1 (1998)

There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does.

Richard Dawkins

Interesting, Doe, Evolution

"The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy" with John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. December 2011.

Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind

Richard Dawkins

Survival, Evolution, Blind

Evolution has been observed. It's just that it hasn't been observed while it's happening.

Richard Dawkins

Evolution, Has Beens, Happenings

"NOW" with Bill Moyer and David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2004.

Have they discovered evolution yet?

Richard Dawkins

Evolution

Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.23, Oxford University Press

Evolution never looks to the future.

Richard Dawkins

Looks, Evolution, Looking To The Future

"The atheist". Interview with Gordy Slack, www.salon.com. April 30, 2005.

Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.

Richard Dawkins

Adults, Evolution, Program

Richard Dawkins (2009). “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution”, p.314, Simon and Schuster

In Britain you don't usually learn about evolution until you are about 15. I should have thought that you should start at about 8. But I could be wrong about that.

Richard Dawkins

Should Have, Evolution, Should

Source: www.macleans.ca

Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.

Richard Dawkins

Design, Evolution, Universe

"Thinkers Lay Out the Beliefs They Can't Prove". "Talk of The Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. March 9, 2006.

There is a tendency for people to say evolution is only a theory. That is inappropriate.

Richard Dawkins

People, Evolution, Inappropriate

Source: www.macleans.ca

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.

Richard Dawkins

World, Evolution, Newton

You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.

Richard Dawkins

Mean, Evolution, Biology

If I were God wanting to make a human being, I would do it by a more direct way rather than by evolution. Why deliberately set it up in the one way which makes it look as though you don't exist?

Richard Dawkins

Looks, Way, Evolution

"Faith and Reason" Interview, www.pbs.org.

Whenever conditions arise in which a new kind of replicator can make copies of itself, the new replicators will tend to take over, and start a new kind of evolution of their own. Once this new evolution begins, it will in no necessary sense be subservient to the old.

Richard Dawkins

Evolution, Kind, Arise

Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene”, p.251, Oxford University Press

...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.

Richard Dawkins

Facts, Evolution, Illusion

Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.340, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I don't see that [Richard] Dawkins' basic account of evolution is incompatible with God's having designed it.

Richard Dawkins

Evolution, Accounts

Source: inters.org