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Quotations about design

Charles DarwinI cannot look at the universe as the result of blind chance, yet I can see no evidence of beneficent design or indeed of design of any kind, in the details.

 - Charles Darwin

Tags:   chance  creation  design  universe  

Richard DawkinsLet us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.

 - Richard Dawkins

Tags:   design  genes  genetics  selfishness  

Frank Lloyd WrightBring out the nature of the materials, let their nature intimately into your scheme. . .Reveal the nature of the wood, plaster, brick or stone in your designs: they are all by nature friendly and beautiful.

 - Frank Lloyd Wright

Tags:   architecture  design  materials  nature  

Andy RooneyI don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

 - Andy Rooney

Tags:   cooking  design  food  

Richard DawkinsNatural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation or 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 watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.

 - Richard Dawkins

Tags:   design  evolution  planning  purpose