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Evolution4 quotes
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker. — Richard Dawkins · 1986It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker. — Richard Dawkins · 1986Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations. — Richard Dawkins · 2006Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense. — Richard Dawkins · 1976Natural selection3 quotes
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker. — Richard Dawkins · 1986It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker. — Richard Dawkins · 1986Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations. — Richard Dawkins · 2006Atheism1 quote
We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. — Richard Dawkins · 1999Biological life1 quote
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. — Richard Dawkins · 1986Biology1 quote
They are in you and in me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence...they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines. — Richard Dawkins · 1976Genetics1 quote
They are in you and in me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence...they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines. — Richard Dawkins · 1976Human nature1 quote
Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations. — Richard Dawkins · 2006Nature of life1 quote
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. — Richard Dawkins · 1986Origin of life1 quote
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker. — Richard Dawkins · 1986