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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries, we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life.
Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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If there is something that appears to lie beyond the natural world as it is now imperfectly understood, we hope to eventually understand it and embrace it within the natural. As ever when we unweave a rainbow, it will not become less wonderful.
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[Invading Iraq] will unite the entire Arab world against the West.
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Science is interesting, and if you don't agree, you can fvck off.
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You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.
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Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, distinctly heard the voice of Jesus telling him to kill women, and he was locked up for life. George W. Bush says that God told him to invade Iraq (a pity God didn't vouchsafe him a revelation that there were no weapons of mass destruction).
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I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction.
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This person should have been aborted years ago.
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