# No Design and No Purpose by Richard Dawkins > "The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design and no purpose." > **— Richard Dawkins**, *River Out of Eden (1995), excerpt candidate* Verification Status: Unverified — exact wording/source has not yet been independently confirmed against a primary source; source clue: River Out of Eden (1995), excerpt candidate. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/MARS|MARS]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Art is Long|The Art is Long]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Civilization|Machine Civilization]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Richard Dawkins|Richard Dawkins]] - [[wiki/Deep Time|Deep Time]] - [[wiki/Long-Term Digital Preservation|Long-Term Digital Preservation]] - [[wiki/Project Silica|Project Silica]] - [[wiki/Synthetic DNA Data Storage|Synthetic DNA Data Storage]] - [[wiki/Civilizational Payload|Civilizational Payload]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design and no purpose." — Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden (1995), excerpt candidate https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-richard-dawkins-no-design-purpose ```