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Richard Dawkins Quotes

English - Scientist | March 26, 1941 -

I would like people to appreciate science in the same way they appreciate the arts.

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Science People Appreciate Way Same

The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful.

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Music Science Art You Sometimes

Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy.

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Changed Genome Sequencing

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

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Life History Find Own Our Which

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I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.

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Childhood People Magic You Too Much

There is something cheap about magic that works just because it is magic.

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Magic Just Because Cheap Something

We frequently look into the future of mankind and see dangers. We see if we carry on doing what we are doing in 20 years' time there will be no rainforests left, just to use one example. Looking into the future may be one of the reasons that brains evolved in the first place.

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Future Time Looking Doing Look Will

I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.

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Fear Will Politicians Watch Somebody

Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.

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Technology Science Achieving Way

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction. I like science fiction where there's a scientific lesson, for example - when the science fiction book changes one thing but leaves the rest of science intact and explores the consequences of that. That's actually very valuable.

Richard Dawkins

Science Book Rest Consequences Where

I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.

Richard Dawkins

Said Entertainment Human Illuminate

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