English - Scientist | March 26, 1941 -
We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it as a piece of harmless fun.
Richard Dawkins
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Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.
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I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject.
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining.
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Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret.
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What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I haven't decided yet.
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We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and what-ifs and talk about things that are not present.
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If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.
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I can handle heckling on evolution because it's my own field.
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In Britain, you don't usually learn about evolution until you are about 15. I should have thought that you should start at about 8. But I could be wrong about that.
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I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship.
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