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I've never been the sort of firebrand that I've been made out to be. I'm actually quite a mild person.
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Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.
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Notoriously, the United States is the most religious of the Western advanced nations. It's a bit mysterious why that is.
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I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.
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I did a film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a woman playing the cello in the background.
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As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.
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If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining.
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Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.
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What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?
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Saddam Hussein could have provided irreplaceable help to future historians of the Iran/Iraq war, of the invasion of Kuwait, and of the subsequent era of sanctions culminating in the current invasion.
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I have begun several projects which were never completed, not necessarily because they failed, but because I got interested in other things.
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It's a difficult business, finding out what's true about the world, the universe.
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There are people who try to get atheists to form a sort of atheist church and have atheist community singsongs and things. I don't see the need for that, but if people want to do it, why shouldn't they?
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If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection.
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I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it.
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Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.
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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 guess the Democrats have to pretend to be more pious than the Republicans because they are under suspicion of not being.
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I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.
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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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Nico Tinbergen was my doctoral supervisor, and he was a benign, avuncular sort of influence; everybody loved him.
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Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.
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Any teaching of falsehoods in science classes should certainly be identified and stopped by school inspectors. School inspectors should be looking at science teachings to make sure they are evidence-based science.
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A constellation is not an entity at all, not the kind of thing that Uranus, or anything else, can sensibly be said to 'move into.'
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Tortoises can survive for weeks without food or water, easily long enough to float in the Humboldt Current from South America to the Galapagos Islands.
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I didn't know children were expected to have literary heroes, but I certainly had one, and I even identified with him at one time: Doctor Dolittle, whom I now half identify with the Charles Darwin of Beagle days.
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But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
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There's a mystical strain in every country, and eclipses are likely to bring that out.
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I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.
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Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism.
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I'm sure Obama is an atheist; I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.
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I've always been very suspicious of the left-right dimension in politics.
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When a company seeks a new chief executive officer, or a university a new vice-chancellor, enormous trouble is taken to find the best person.
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What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I haven't decided yet.
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The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It's almost as though Saint Paul and others who wrote the Epistles weren't that interested in whether Jesus was real.
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I would like people to appreciate science in the same way they appreciate the arts.
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The supernatural is ubiquitous in children's entertainment, from Grimm and Hans Andersen to Disney and 'Harry Potter.'
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