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Richard Dawkins Quotes

English - Scientist | March 26, 1941 -

When a company seeks a new chief executive officer, or a university a new vice-chancellor, enormous trouble is taken to find the best person.

Richard Dawkins

Best Find Person Trouble New Chief

George Bush is a catastrophe for the world. And a dream for Bin Laden.

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World Dream Catastrophe George Bush

In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the idea of designer babies particularly dangerous - though, of course, they would not have used that phrase.

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Political Dangerous Right 1920s Left

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.

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Religion Argument Out Beliefs Cannot

There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.

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World View Important Conservation

People like to trace their ancestry.

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People Like Trace Ancestry

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

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Technology Science Common Sense Sense

The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.

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Science History Universe Long Been

The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension-dominated flatland, we live in a social world.

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Live Water World Computers Reason

When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.

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Human Consciousness Big Brains Get

I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things.

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Learning Age Remember I Can Mars

I have begun several projects which were never completed, not necessarily because they failed, but because I got interested in other things.

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Never Things Got Because Interested

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