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Richard Dawkins on Flight, Evolution & Design
Have you ever dreamt you could fly? Or imagined what it would be like to glide and swoop through the sky like a bird? Do you let your mind soar to unknown,…
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I have a deep fascination with the natural world, the problems that living creatures need to solve and how natural selection evolution by natural selection has solved those problems. When it comes to flight... It's all about physics... how you solve the problems raised by physics.
— Richard DawkinsEvolutionary Biologist & Author of "The Selfish Gene
Our envy of birds certainly helped drive our will to fly, however I think Leonardo was probably held back by trying to emulate the flapping of birds; that doesn't work with human muscles. We had to free ourselves of the perception that you need to flap your wings.
— Richard DawkinsEvolutionary Biologist & Author of "The Selfish Gene
Birds are not born with an innate genetically determined knowledge of constellations. What they do has been brilliantly shown in an experiment by Stephen Emlen. Birds learn when they're young to look at this night sky and learn which bits of the sky don't rotate.
— Richard DawkinsEvolutionary Biologist & Author of "The Selfish Gene
We have angels in mythology which fly everywhere, we have fairies, we have myths like the Greek myth of Icarus. It does have a great hold over our imagination. I feel it's such a wonderful thing to be able to leave the tyranny of gravity to leave the ground and fly wherever you will.
— Richard DawkinsEvolutionary Biologist & Author of "The Selfish Gene
Flight is a very quick way to get from A to B. It's also a very good way to escape from predators who are stuck on the ground. The question to be asked is why doesn't everybody fly?
— Richard DawkinsEvolutionary Biologist & Author of "The Selfish Gene
In some ways, emulating birds would have held us back – yes it would have given us the drive and motivation, but we had to forget about flapping to develop the combustion engine driven plane!
— Richard DawkinsEvolutionary Biologist & Author of "The Selfish Gene
An example is when you catch a cricket ball your brain is doing the equivalent of solving differential equations, but you do it unconsciously.
— Richard DawkinsEvolutionary Biologist & Author of "The Selfish Gene
Birds are not born with an innate genetically determined knowledge of constellations. What they do has been brilliantly shown in an experiment by Stephen Emlen.
— Richard DawkinsEvolutionary Biologist & Author of "The Selfish Gene
I feel it's such a wonderful thing to be able to leave the tyranny of gravity to leave the ground and fly wherever you will.
— Richard DawkinsEvolutionary Biologist & Author of "The Selfish Gene
The question to be asked is why doesn't everybody fly?
— Richard DawkinsEvolutionary Biologist & Author of "The Selfish Gene
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