Richard Dawkins Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• Molecular genetics can show off some surprising relationships like, for example, the close relationship of whales to hippopotamuses, which I think nobody ever guessed until molecular data was looked at. The closest relatives of whales are hippopotamuses, even closer than any other cloven-hoofed animals.

  Richard Dawkins

  Animal, Thinking, Whales

  Source: www.lightspeedmagazine.com

• 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 sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all species are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Animal, Years

  "River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1995.

• It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.

  Richard Dawkins

  Animal, Important, Realizing

• Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all. Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all. Five per cent flight efficiency is better than no flight at all. It is thoroughly believable that every organ or apparatus that we actually see is the product of a smooth trajectory through animal space, a trajectory in which every intermediate stage assisted survival and reproduction.

  Richard Dawkins

  Science, Animal, Space

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.96, W. W. Norton & Company

• We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

  Richard Dawkins

  Animal, Complicated, Known

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

• The resemblance of the signs of the zodiac to the animals after which they are named... is as unimpressive as the predictions of astrologers.

  Richard Dawkins

  Animal, Zodiac, Predictions

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.53, W. W. Norton & Company

• Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.

  Richard Dawkins

  Animal, Fossils, Found

  Richard Dawkins (2009). “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

• We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known what that means, and we think evolution makes it even clearer. But it doesn't. It is by no means clear that it means anything at all. Or if it means anything, it means so many different things to be misleading, even pernicious.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Animal, Thinking

  Richard Dawkins (2009). “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

• All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.

  Richard Dawkins

  Animal, Variation, Theme

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution”, p.424, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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