“There's a mystical strain in every country, and eclipses are likely to bring that out.”
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Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford and was a fellow of New College, Oxford. Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book *The Selfish Gene*, which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982, he made a widely cited contribution to evolutionary biology with the concept, presented in his book *The Extended Phenotype*, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms. Dawkins is well known for his candid criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book *The Blind Watchmaker*, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins
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“There's a mystical strain in every country, and eclipses are likely to bring that out.”
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“The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature a...”
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“Natural selection is anything but random.”
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“If you think about it, 534 members of the U.S. Congress cannot all be religious. That's just statistical nonsense. Many of them are quite well-educated.”
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“The state of Israel seems to owe its very existence to the American Jewish vote, while at the same time consigning the non-religious to political oblivion.”
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“I'm not a good observer. I'm not proud of it.”
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“By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”
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“Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.”
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“I guess the Democrats have to pretend to be more pious than the Republicans because they are under suspicion of not being.”
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“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.”
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“If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too.”
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“I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.”
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“The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.”
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“I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.”
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“I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.”
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“My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.”
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“Either Jesus had a father, or he didn't. The question is a scientific one, and scientific evidence, if any were available, would be used to settle it.”
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“A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.”
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“Segregation has no place in the education system.”
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“Why did humans lose their body hair? Why did they start walking on their hind legs? Why did they develop big brains? I think that the answer to all three questions is sexual selection.”
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