Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins FRS FRSLis an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 March 1941
CityNairobi, Kenya
Richard Dawkins quotes about
culture belief evolution
Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.
mean evolution biology
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 happenings has-beens
Evolution has been observed. It's just that it hasn't been observed while it's happening.
orangutans apes evolution
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
health theory-of-evolution inspire
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
health theory-of-evolution inspire
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
interesting doe evolution
There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does.
way looks evolution
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?
sahara lucky evolution
We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.
adults evolution program
Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
teaching theory-of-evolution immorality
Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
facts evolution illusion
...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.
evolution
Have they discovered evolution yet?
looks evolution looking-to-the-future
Evolution never looks to the future.