Occupation: Ethologist Birth: March 26, 1941
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you..
My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot..
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence..
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion..
Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end..
How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one..
I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to cri….
Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings..
The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors..
Religion: Together we can find the cure..
Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done not….
It's very important to try to inculcate into children moral rules, such as "do as you would be done by.".
Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about huma….
Nowadays theologians aren't quite so straightforward as Paley. They don't point to complex living mechanisms and say that they are self-evidently des….
Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extrem….
People who believe in God conclude there must have been a divine knob twiddler who twiddled the knobs of these half-dozen constants to get them exact….
You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'.
You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as a substantial book.….
DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music..
I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low..
Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to write a science book for yo….