When I say that human beings are just gene machine... -Richard Dawkins

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

Richard Dawkins Quotes to Explore

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that...

People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design....

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but bli...

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discov...

We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster....

It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to...

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music....

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because ...

Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space....

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and ou...

Beauty Quotes to Explore

I think each woman has her own relationship to beauty....

The ever-renewed instances of beauty and fairness passing over the faces of the beings in the universe show that they are shadows of the manifestation...

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that s...

When I am going out, I am in ponytail, jeans, tees. I am just like any girl-next-door. Beauty is not external; it's internal. When you are a happy sou...

One of the big things I've learned over the years and I'm excited that Glossier perpetuates is that wherever you're at, in terms of your scope of know...

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired....

It's good to have a reminder that we can love ourselves and be beautiful even though we don't really fit into certain standards of what beauty may be....

Like the rest of the genetic lottery, beauty is unfair. Everyone falls short of perfection, but some are luckier than others. Real confidence requires...

The Lord did not people the earth with a vibrant orchestra of personalities only to value the piccolos of the world. Every instrument is precious and ...

But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th ...