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> [People who have various kinds of politics for whom it is congenial for their apriority politics to say yes, things are getting much worse. They are opposed by people who also have a priori politics saying that this is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lewontin/people-who-have-various-kinds-of-politics-for-whom-it-is-congenial/)

[Richard Lewontin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lewontin/)

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## More by Richard Lewontin

> [I assume the same problem exists in Australia as in America of back-biting and jealousy and parochialism among disciplines - there are the scientists,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lewontin/i-assume-the-same-problem-exists-in-australia-as-in-america-of-back/)

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> [The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply ignores the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lewontin/the-vulgarization-of-darwinism-that-sees-the-struggle-for-existence/)

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> [We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lewontin/we-take-the-side-of-science-in-spite-of-the-patent-absurdity-of-some/)

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> [In my mind the job of a natural scientist is to bend over backwards to say something which can be demonstrated to be true…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lewontin/in-my-mind-the-job-of-a-natural-scientist-is-to-bend-over-backwards/)

[Richard Lewontin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lewontin/)

> [If I ask you who is the most famous scientist who ever lived, or the greatest scientist who ever lived you'll say either Einstein…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lewontin/if-i-ask-you-who-is-the-most-famous-scientist-who-ever-lived-or-the/)

[Richard Lewontin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lewontin/)

> [People who have various kinds of politics for whom it is congenial for their apriority politics to say yes, things are getting much worse.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lewontin/people-who-have-various-kinds-of-politics-for-whom-it-is-congenial/)

[Richard Lewontin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lewontin/)

> [To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lewontin/to-appeal-to-an-omnipotent-deity-is-to-allow-that-at-any-moment-the/)

[Richard Lewontin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lewontin/)

> [There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history that can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lewontin/there-are-a-whole-other-range-of-sciences-that-must-deal-with-the/)

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> [As an American I must say I haven't been very encouraged by the way in which the people who run the government in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lewontin/as-an-american-i-must-say-i-haven-t-been-very-encouraged-by-the-way/)

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> [Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lewontin/evolutionists-have-a-prior-commitment-a-commitment-to-naturalism-it/)

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> [Quantification, experimentation, rigor, repetition, prediction - all of these are part of the experimental sciences. There's an iconography also namely man, and I do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lewontin/quantification-experimentation-rigor-repetition-prediction-all-of/)

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> [An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It's not just supposed to tally up a long list of individual cases…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lewontin/an-experimental-science-is-supposed-to-perform-experiments-that-find/)

[Richard Lewontin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lewontin/)

> [My general impression about people like Steve Gould and Carl Sagan and so on is that when they disappear as individuals and are no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lewontin/my-general-impression-about-people-like-steve-gould-and-carl-sagan/)

[Richard Lewontin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lewontin/)

> [If you can't write well then your ambition to become famous in this way will be frustrated. Either that or you have to get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lewontin/if-you-can-t-write-well-then-your-ambition-to-become-famous-in-this/)

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> [If I put myself on the side of those who see the world as warming up in a bad way, who see the general…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lewontin/if-i-put-myself-on-the-side-of-those-who-see-the-world-as-warming-up/)

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