Richard Dawkins Quotes About Biology

Quotes about: Biology

• Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose

  Richard Dawkins

  Giving, Purpose, Study

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

• 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

• A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheism, Looks, Different

• If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Years, Doubt

  Richard Dawkins (2009). “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

• I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ideas, Free Will, Biology

• There is economics in biology, nothing is free, everything has to be paid for, there are costs as well as benefits to everything in life, for example, there was never sufficient natural selection pressure to develop better eyes, individuals could earn other things like smiley smiles rather than waste energy & time on better eyes.

  Richard Dawkins

  Eye, Energy, Example

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

  Richard Dawkins

  Lucky, Sahara, Evolution

  Unweaving the Rainbow ch. 1 (1998)

• My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.

  Richard Dawkins

  Philosophical, Sides, Biology

• The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might be interchanged with those of a computer engineering journal.

  Richard Dawkins

  Differences, Engineering, Molecular Biology

  Richard Dawkins (1995). “River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life”, Basic Books (AZ)

• It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means to a very, very high level of technology- and designed a form of life that they seeded onto perhaps this planet. And I suppose it's possible that you might find evidence for that if you look at the details of biochemistry, molecular biology, you might find a signature of some sort of designer.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Technology, Civilization

  "Atheist Richard Dawkins makes some startling comments on religion". www.glennbeck.com. August 27, 2012.

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