Charles Dawkins Quotes

#1. Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#2. Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?

Kate Douglas Wiggin

#3. But ah, to fish with a worm, and then not catch your fish! To fail with a fly is no disgrace: your art may have been impeccable, your patience faultless to the end. But the philosophy of worm-fishing is that of results, of having something tangible in your basket when the day's work is done.

Bliss Perry

#4. This is a bad world; nor have I had cause to leave it with regret.

Horace Walpole

#5. You don't know about that what you talk about," he added, with more feeling than grammar, "else you wouldn't say that. What do you want from me?" Mort

Terry Pratchett

#6. The funny thing is if in England, you ask a man in the street who the greatest living Darwinian is, he will say Richard Dawkins. And indeed, Dawkins has done a marvelous job of popularizing Darwinism. But Dawkins' basic theory of the gene being the object of evolution is totally non-Darwinian.

Ernst W. Mayr

#7. The creative process is probably closest to problem solving, but it differs from it in a number of ways. In problem solving the immediate goal is a specific one ... in the creative process there is no such clear goal.

Anne Roe

#8. Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

Alexander Pope

#9. In an empire as unruly as Rome, it is quite easy to get away with something as thespian as murder.

Katlyn Charlesworth

#10. Cooper?"
"Yeah?"
"Why didn't you tell me it would be like that?"
"What was it like?" I ask.
"Amazing.

Cheryl McIntyre

#11. I feel the same way about clothes as I do about food. I want everything,

Mindy Kaling

#12. It doesn't matter; even if you do tend to wear the same things all the time, it's how you wear them and your attitude that counts.

Kate Moss

#13. Satan is behind the theory of evolution. Satan hates God and us. Satan is the father of all lies. So he wants nothing more than to make every human being alive believe lies about God, ourselves and how and why we exist.

Lisa Bedrick

#14. When you act on your priority, you'll automatically go out of balance, giving more time to one thing over another.

Gary Keller

#15. Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.

Richard Dawkins

#16. Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.

Charles Jencks

#17. I love New York. A part of me will always be here. What can I say.

Latrell Sprewell

#18. Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

Tiger Woods

#19. It's [the word "sorry"] the most infuriating word in the English language. Just a cheap way to behave badly then shelve responsibility by putting the onus on the other person to be forgiving.

Minette Walters

#20. I didn't know children were expected to have literary heroes, but I certainly had one, and I even identified with him at one time: Doctor Dolittle, whom I now half identify with the Charles Darwin of Beagle days.

Richard Dawkins