Richard Dawkins

(1941–) · British Biologist

British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author

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Richard Dawkins

(1941–) · British Biologist

British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author

People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.
If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolution, you might find a fairly substantial fraction of young people, without knowing what it is they disapprove of, think they disapprove of it, because they've been brought up to.
I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.
I love romantic poetry.
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Segregation has no place in the education system.
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.
Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.
I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.

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