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To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

~Richard Dawkins

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Nico Tinbergen was my doctoral supervisor, and he was a benign, avuncular sort of influence; everybody loved him.

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I don't actually think 'The Selfish Gene' is a very good title. I think that's one of my worst titles.

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I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind.

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Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit.

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We have a huge amount of DNA in common with jellyfish.

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Beauty arises out of human inspiration.

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I was never much bothered about moral questions like, 'How could there be a good God when there's so much evil in the world?'

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I think it's misleading to use a word like 'God' in the way Einstein did. I'm sorry that Einstein did. I think he was asking for trouble, and he certainly was misunderstood.

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I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe it as a polarizing book or as an aggressive book, it's just that very often they haven't read it.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: March 26th, 1941

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