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- 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 was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as we…
- For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.
- I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.
- The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct…
- My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly…
- I would like to find a way in which people in Saudi Arabia could learn that they can be something other than a Muslim. Some…
- A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.
- I have begun several projects which were never completed, not necessarily because they failed, but because I got interested in other things.
- Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit.
- Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of us…
- Humans have a proven track record in taking over planes by the use of threats, which work because the legitimate pilots value their own lives…
- We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.
- One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at…
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