Occupation: Ethologist Birth: March 26, 1941
Next time that somebody tells you something is true, why not say to them: 'What kind of evidence is there for that?' And if they can't give you a goo….
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility..
Our brains are separate and independent enough from our genes to rebel against them.. we do so in a small way everytime we use contraception. There i….
Evolution has been observed. It's just that it hasn't been observed while it's happening..
I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and culture wit….
Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile exp….
All qualified physicists, biologists, cosmologists and geologists agree, on the basis of massive, mutually corroborating evidence, that the earth's a….
For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are so bea….
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality..
My last vestige of 'hands off religion' respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11, 2001, followed by the 'National Day of Pra….
However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or complain that it is dull or barren or (like a child) boring, couldn't this be seen ….
I find that religion really does motivate people to do horrible things because they have this passionate faith in whatever their religion happens to ….
The beauty of evolution is that it does provide an explanation of how you can get complexity out of simplicity. It does it by slow, gradual degree. A….
If you look up at the Milky Way through the eyes of Carl Sagan, you get a feeling in your chest of something greater than yourself. And it is. But it….
Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just sucking up..
Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But ….
Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop,sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.
Science is the poetry of reality..
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. ….
Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance..
Religion has been a powerful weapon in the hands of governments, in the hands of priests, in the hands of kings who have used it as a weapon to keep ….