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In Britain, you don't usually learn about evolution until you are about 15. I should have thought that you should start at about 8. But I could be wrong about that.

~Richard Dawkins

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I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship.

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I would like people to appreciate science in the same way they appreciate the arts.

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The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful.

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Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy.

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Placebos work.

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I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.

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There is something cheap about magic that works just because it is magic.

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We frequently look into the future of mankind and see dangers. We see if we carry on doing what we are doing in 20 years' time there will be no rainforests left, just to use one example. Looking into the future may be one of the reasons that brains evolved in the first place.

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Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: March 26th, 1941

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