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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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Each step is not too improbable for us to countenance, but when you add them up cumulatively over millions of years, you get these monsters of improbability, like the human brain and the rain forest. It should warn us against ever again assuming that because something is complicated, God must have done it.
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I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to criticize it (unfairly, given my original modest intention) or to carry it far beyond the limits of what I then thought justified. This was why I may have seemed to backtrack.
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All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.
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I'm a sucker for nice religious leaders. I fall for it every time.
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I think more than 20 percent of Nobel Prizes have been won by Jews.
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The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.
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