5 Quotes by Richard Dawkins about machines

  • Author Richard Dawkins
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    To invoke the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing - for it leaves unexplained the origin of the Designer.

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    The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might be interchanged with those of a computer engineering journal.

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    If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.

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    The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a quaternary code with four symbols. The machine code of the genes is uncannily computerlike.

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