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Richard Dawkins
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For his purposes (and mine), scientific medicine is defined as the set of practices which submit themselves to the ordeal of being tested.
— Foreword to by John Diamond, Vintage, 2001.
Richard Dawkins
English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941)
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Born 1941 · age 85United Kingdom
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He made evolutionary biology confrontational — and popular. The Selfish Gene reframed life as a battlefield of genes, then The God Delusion reframed faith as fair game for the same scrutiny. Few scientists have turned clarity into this much argument.
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Born 26 March 1941, Dawkins built his career as an evolutionary biologist at Oxford, becoming emeritus fellow at New College and the first Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science from 1995 to 2008. The Selfish Gene in 1976 introduced the gene-centred view of evolution and coined "meme"; The Blind Watchmaker in 1986 explained how natural selection's cumulative, non-random process generates complexity from random variation. Climbing Mount Improbable in 1996, drawn from his Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, traced how evolution builds intricate adaptations through intermedia…
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Richard Dawkins
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More generally it is completely unrealistic to claim, as Gould and many others do, that religion keeps itself away from science's turf, restricting itself to morals and values.
— "When Religion Steps on Science’s Turf", Free Inquiry (1998)
Richard Dawkins
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The popularity of the paranormal, oddly enough, might even be grounds for encouragement.
— "Science Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder", John Brockman, Edge.org, December 29, 1996
Richard Dawkins
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The reason Smolin's idea is interesting is that it may answer the challenge, "The universe is too good to be true.
— "Science Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder", John Brockman, Edge.org, December 29, 1996
Richard Dawkins
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What worries me about religion is that it teaches people to be satisfied with not understanding the world they live in.
— Heart Of The Matter: God Under The Microscope | BBC (1996)
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