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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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Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil.
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For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.
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Suppose that there's a gene that makes you gay if you were bottle-fed but that has some completely different effect if you were breast-fed. So in the days before bottles were invented that gene would not have manifested itself as gay behavior, but now that bottles are common it can do so.
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I am not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where facts are concerned.
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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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