Quotes from Richard Dawkins

Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.

Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind

I remember at the age of six regaling my poor little sister with stories about the planets, and how far away they were and which ones might have life.

Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments.

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.

Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.

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.

We frequently look into the future of mankind and see dangers. We see if we carry on doing what we are doing in 20 years' time there will be no rainforests left, just to use one example. Looking into the future may be one of the reasons that brains evolved in the first place.

Don't feel embarrassed if you've never heard of William Lane Craig. He parades himself as a philosopher, but none of the professors of philosophy whom I consulted had heard his name, either.

Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and arbitrarily violate them in order to walk on water, or turn water into wine as a cheap party trick at a wedding?

You can legally lie about the real world to your heart's content, but until some human being is materially damaged, nobody will complain.

Creationists are possibly gaining more political power. In the U.S., you are constantly hearing stories of school boards harassing teachers and trying to get textbooks banned.

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries, we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life.

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two miracles.

Either Jesus had a father, or he didn't. The question is a scientific one, and scientific evidence, if any were available, would be used to settle it.

Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism.

I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?

Natural selection is anything but random.

People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.

At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.

I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.

Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy.