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Richard Dawkins Quotes

English - Scientist | March 26, 1941 -

Why did humans lose their body hair? Why did they start walking on their hind legs? Why did they develop big brains? I think that the answer to all three questions is sexual selection.

Richard Dawkins

Hair Start Think Walking Questions

The very large brain that humans have, plus the things that go along with it - language, art, science - seemed to have evolved only once. The eye, by contrast, independently evolved 40 times. So, if you were to 'replay' evolution, the eye would almost certainly appear again, whereas the big brain probably wouldn't.

Richard Dawkins

Science Art Brain Eye Language You

For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.

Richard Dawkins

Me Natural Level Natural Selection

I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.

Richard Dawkins

Women Me Feel Oppression Because

It's a difficult business, finding out what's true about the world, the universe.

Richard Dawkins

Business World Universe Finding True

I wouldn't want to have the thought police going to people's homes, dictating what they teach their children. I don't want to be Big Brotherish. I would hate that.

Richard Dawkins

Children Hate Police People Thought

There's a mystical strain in every country, and eclipses are likely to bring that out.

Richard Dawkins

Country Out Bring Mystical Every

There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story.

Richard Dawkins

Story You See Clearly Hysteria Lot

Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

Richard Dawkins

Status Religious Charitable Automatic

Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something to do.

Richard Dawkins

Mystery Want Mysterious Reason Stay

The word 'excess' has no meaning for a male.

Richard Dawkins

Meaning Excess Word Male

The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place.

Richard Dawkins

World Place Ancestors Never First

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