Richard Dawkins Quotes

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

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.

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.

We have spent our entire existence adapting.

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.

Evolution is cleverer than you are.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.

I'm a Darwinian.

Evolution is all about looking forward.

We share deep admiration for evolution, a force of Nature that has led to the finest chemistry of all time, and to all living things on this planet.

Evolution doesn't just look for things that are fun; if it did, we'd know how to fly.

We're not the best, but we happen to be what evolution came up with.

Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.

Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.

Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood.

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.

Politics is applied biology.

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.