I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.Richard Dawkins
Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.Richard Dawkins
Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.Richard Dawkins
I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research.Richard Dawkins
Notoriously, the United States is the most religious of the Western advanced nations. It's a bit mysterious why that is.Richard Dawkins
For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.Richard Dawkins
Why did humans lose their body hair? Why did they start walking on their hind legs? Why did they develop big brains? I think that the answer to all three questions is sexual selection.Richard Dawkins
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.Richard Dawkins
