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Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view.…
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It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're…
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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have…
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Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it.…
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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure…
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I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
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Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
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Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know…
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Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.
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Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be…
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'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.
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Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more…
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Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern…
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In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas…
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In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as…
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In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.
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If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility…
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I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now,…
— Richard Dawkins
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In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with.
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I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children…
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Im a college student who wants to know if there is any way to truly balance academic life with social life?
— James
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