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Hijacking by pseudoscience and bad science fiction is a threat to our legitimate sense of wonder.


Richard Dawkins

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HONOR HARGER Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.
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ANDREW WEIL I'm not a fan of science fiction, personally,
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RICHARD DAWKINS Некоторые критики ошибочно считают, что «Эгоистичный �...
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RICHARD DAWKINS Earlier than about 10,000 years ago, all human populations were hunter gatherers. Soon, probably non...
RICHARD DAWKINS But the very fact that Darwinism is true makes it even more important for us to fight against the na...
RICHARD DAWKINS Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities th...
RICHARD DAWKINS Darwin himself said as much: 'If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could...
RICHARD DAWKINS Darwin singled out the eye as posing a particularly challenging problem: 'To suppose that the eye wi...
RICHARD DAWKINS A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of re...
RICHARD DAWKINS The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two m...
RICHARD DAWKINS It is a strange fact, incidentally, that religious apologists love the anthropic principle. For some...
RICHARD DAWKINS Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious
defence? One might have supp...
RICHARD DAWKINS The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never ...
RICHARD DAWKINS Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly depa...
RICHARD DAWKINS Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consumin...
RICHARD DAWKINS There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children,...
RICHARD DAWKINS The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose ...
RICHARD DAWKINS Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independen...
RICHARD DAWKINS If you don't understand how something
works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You d...
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