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My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.
Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.
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If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
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