Effective searching procedures become, when the search-space is sufficiently large, indistinguishable from true creativity.
Richard DawkinsThe universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans.
Richard DawkinsI find many of answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist.
Richard DawkinsThe whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame science for that.
Richard DawkinsMost people understand that sexual lust has to do with propagating genes. Copulation in nature tends to lead to reproduction and so to more genetic copies. But in modern society, most copulations involve contraception, designed precisely to avoid reproduction. Altruism probably has origins like those of lust.
Richard DawkinsWhat has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely the kind of information that can be translated digit for digit, byte for byte, into any other kind of information and then translated back again. This is a major revolution. I suppose it's probably "the" major revolution in the whole history of our understanding of ourselves. It's something would have boggled the mind of Darwin, and Darwin would have loved it, I'm absolutely sure.
Richard Dawkins