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What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.

~Richard Dawkins

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Einstein was adamant in rejecting all ideas of a personal god.

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Why did humans lose their body hair? Why did they start walking on their hind legs? Why did they develop big brains? I think that the answer to all three questions is sexual selection.

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The very large brain that humans have, plus the things that go along with it - language, art, science - seemed to have evolved only once. The eye, by contrast, independently evolved 40 times. So, if you were to 'replay' evolution, the eye would almost certainly appear again, whereas the big brain probably wouldn't.

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I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.

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As a liberal, I would hesitate to propose a blanket ban on any style of dress because of the implications for individual liberty and freedom of choice.

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It's a difficult business, finding out what's true about the world, the universe.

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I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.

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I wouldn't want to have the thought police going to people's homes, dictating what they teach their children. I don't want to be Big Brotherish. I would hate that.

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When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course the system is wide open to exploitation by parasites.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: March 26th, 1941

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