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Famous Richard Dawkins Quotes
“The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.”
“My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.”
“Natural selection is anything but random.”
“It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.”
“I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.”
“Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.”
“Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.”
“Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.”
“I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.”
“My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.”
“My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.”
“I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.”