| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 15896 |
| QUOTATION: | Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind’s eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Richard Dawkins (b. 1941), British biologist. The Blind Watchmaker, ch. 1 (1986). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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