I assume the same problem exists in Australia as in America of back-biting and jealousy and parochialism among disciplines - there are… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
As an American I must say I haven't been very encouraged by the way in which the people who run the government… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
The primary problem is not to provide the public with the knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
I assume the same problem exists in Australia as in America of back-biting and jealousy and parochialism among disciplines - there are the scientists,… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply ignores the… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
In my mind the job of a natural scientist is to bend over backwards to say something which can be demonstrated to be true… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
People who have various kinds of politics for whom it is congenial for their apriority politics to say yes, things are getting much worse.… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen. — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history that can… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Quantification, experimentation, rigor, repetition, prediction - all of these are part of the experimental sciences. There's an iconography also namely man, and I do… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
