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All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are no fossils in the wrong place.

From Richard Dawkins

Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.

From Richard Dawkins

A guided missile corrects its trajectory as it flies, homing in, say, on the heat of a jet plane's exhaust. A great improvement on a simple ballistic shell, it still cannot discriminate particular targets. It could not zero in on a designated New York skyscraper if launched from as far away as Boston.

From Richard Dawkins

Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret.

From Richard Dawkins

The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful.

From Richard Dawkins

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.

From Richard Dawkins

I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.

From Richard Dawkins

Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution.

From Richard Dawkins

I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.

From Richard Dawkins

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.

From Richard Dawkins

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