Richard Dawkins Quotes

Genes don't mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official.

I never thought that I was very intelligent.

Genes are not destiny!

I've got an IQ of 40 million.

Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.

I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

When your IQ rises to 28, sell.

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

Genetics play a huge part in who we are. But we also have free will.

I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.

Intelligence is in the head, not in the age.

Some people just don’t have high enough IQs to compete.

IQ is equivalent to chip speed, and superior chip speed will enable certain things that inferior chip speed will not enable. The same is true about just about any human attribute you can think of that has no relationship to IQ whatsoever.

I should thank my parents for my beauty. It's in my genes.

Heredity proposes and development disposes.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory can contend that what distinguishes the genius from the dullard is entirely the effect of postnatal influences.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

I'm no genius, sure, but I'm no dum-dum.

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

I'm a little smarter than most.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.