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- Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like…
- Our brains are separate and independent enough from our genes to rebel against them.. we do so in a small way everytime we use contraception.…
- I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as scapegoats for religion…
- If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment-thereby, incidentally, condemning remote future generations…
- Nobody would seriously describe a tiny child as a Marxist child or an Anarchist child or a Post-modernist child. Yet children are routinely labelled with…
- There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. We shouldn't be too surprised about that…
- I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but…
- When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great…
- It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.
- I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.
- Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the…
- It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will.
- Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed a census under…
- Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things, too.
- In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever asking what their…
- I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.
- 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…
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