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The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame science for that.

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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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I find many of answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist.
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When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell.
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Most of the ones [Nobel prizes] that have gone to Muslims have been peace prizes, and the [number of Muslims] who have gotten them for scientific work is exceedingly low. But in Jews, it is exceedingly high.
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