When the ancestors of the cheetah first began pursuing the ancestors of the gazelle, neither of them could run as fast as they can today.Richard Dawkins
Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution.Richard Dawkins
Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.Richard Dawkins
When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.Richard Dawkins
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans.Richard Dawkins
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.Richard Dawkins
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.Richard Dawkins
If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection.Richard Dawkins
There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.Richard Dawkins
