192 quotes
Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anybody who doubts it is invited to jump out of a tenth-floor window.
The Genius of Charles Darwin (2008)
I think that what really matters about a religion is whether it's true.
With respect to those meanings of "human" that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig.
To excuse pedophiliac assaults in general, or to make light of the horrific experiences of others, was a thousand miles from my intention.
It takes intellectual courage to kick yourself out of your emotional incredulity and persuade yourself that there is no other rational choice.
What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot of phenomena under a single heading.
But you cannot have an unnatural welfare state, unless you also have unnatural birth control, otherwise the end result will be misery even greater than that which obtains in nature.
The Selfish Gene (1976)
What is the selfish gene? It is not just one single physical bit of DNA. Just as in the primeval soup, it is all replicas of a particular bit of DNA, distributed throughout the world.
The Selfish Gene (1976)
Science is the poetry of reality.
The Enemies of Reason (2007)
The truth is that all examples of child protection and parental care, and all associated bodily organs ... are examples of the working in nature of the kin-selection principle.
The Selfish Gene (1976)
We no longer have to resort to superstition when faced with the deep problems: Is there a meaning to life? What are we for? What is man?
The Selfish Gene (1976)
If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.
The Blind Watchmaker (1986)
Who (apart from the pig) is damaged by bacon?
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun, but the full implications of Darwin’s revolution have yet to be widely realized.
The Selfish Gene (1976)
The world becomes full of organisms that have what it takes to become ancestors. That, in a sentence, is Darwinism.
River out of Eden (1995)
Don't ask God to cure cancer & world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space & fixing the weather for your barbecue.
As a liberal I would hesitate to propose a blanket ban on any style of dress because of the implications for individual liberty and freedom of choice.
A body is a patchwork of compromises.
The Greatest Show on Earth (2009)
They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.
The Selfish Gene (1976)