We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.Richard Dawkins
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
Darwin's 'survival of the fittest' is really a special case of a more general law of survival of the stableRichard Dawkins
We exist for the same reason a stone falls or a plant absorbs light from the sun or a red corpuscle carries oxygen. We are, each of us, survival machines built by our genes for the propagation of those same genes.Richard Dawkins
Evolution . . . is a quintessentially scientific process in the proper sense of the word. It works by mutation and selection, and mutation is not itself originally guided: it is random.Richard Dawkins
Evolution is cleverer than you are.Richard Dawkins
In the broadest sense, therefore, we animals are mushrooms: specifically, we are the equivalent of the reproductive parts of mushrooms.Richard Dawkins
It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow tree, and it is pumping downy seeds into the air.Richard Dawkins
Our brains are flooded with large quantities of information. To avoid drowning, they use a technique called generalising to summarise the incoming flood.Richard Dawkins
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.Richard Dawkins