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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.

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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don't understand how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesis a bafflingly complex process? Wonderful! Please don't go to work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God.
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