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As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.

Richard Dawkins

I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.

Richard Dawkins

I think the world's always a better place if people are filled with understanding.

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

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

I guess the Democrats have to pretend to be more pious than the Republicans because they are under suspicion of not being.

Richard Dawkins

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

Richard Dawkins

When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.

Richard Dawkins

It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.

Richard Dawkins

There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a scientist, and not an idiot.

Richard Dawkins

I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.

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

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

Richard Dawkins

I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.

Richard Dawkins

I did a film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a woman playing the cello in the background.

Richard Dawkins

A constellation is not an entity at all, not the kind of thing that Uranus, or anything else, can sensibly be said to 'move into.'

Richard Dawkins

If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.

Richard Dawkins

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

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

To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

Richard Dawkins

I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

Richard Dawkins