“People like to trace their ancestry.” — Richard Dawkins Quote

“People like to trace their ancestry.”

“Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.”

“In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party.”

“I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it.”

“It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television?”

“Why did humans lose their body hair? Why did they start walking on their hind legs? Why did they develop big brains? I think that the answer to all three questions is sexual selection.”

“The other piece about tracing your ancestry is it makes you slightly more empathetic about what happens today. As we seem to have lost a certain sense of humanity for and among each other.”

“My father's family didn't really know much about our ancestry. I mean, they had the story that I think a lot of white Americans have, which is, well, we came from Europe. And we arrived here.”

“By ancestry, I was born to rule.”

“I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.”

“My ancestry is really weird, because my great grandfather was from the Cayman Islands, and then his father was from England. But I lose track at that point.”

“It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.”