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Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

~Richard Dawkins

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Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

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A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

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But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.

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Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

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I love romantic poetry.

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My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

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I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.

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I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: March 26th, 1941

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