“I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“I love romantic poetry.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.”
— Richard Dawkins
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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.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.”
— Richard Dawkins
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