Occupation: Ethologist Birth: March 26, 1941
All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though..
To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham..
With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig..
Suppose that there's a gene that makes you gay if you were bottle-fed but that has some completely different effect if you were breast-fed. So in the….
You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure i….
Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do selfish, greedy,….
Our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at. We never evolved to navigate….
Our own existence once presented the greatest of all mysteries, but ... it is a mystery no longer because it is solved. Darwin and Wallace solved it ….
There isn't [in new atheism]. Nothing that wasn't in Bertrand Russell or probably Robert Ingersoll. But I suppose it is more of a political effect, i….
You can't statistically explain improbable things like living creatures by saying that they must have been designed because you're still left to expl….
The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scienti….
I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our t….
It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they are Hindus, Catholic….
You don't believe that the Earth is round only if you're an astronaut. You don't believe Napoleon existed only if you're a historian. You believe the….
Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them against fea….
If you divide Christians into denominations, agnostics and atheists come in third, behind Catholics and Baptists. That's interesting when you contras….
Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science..
If it's really true, that the museum at Liberty University has dinosaur fossils which are labelled as being 3000 years old, then that is an education….
Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do have nothing to be proud of..
I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, A….
We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed..