Scientist Quotes

How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'?
Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.
Humans have a proven track record in taking over planes by the use of threats, which work because the legitimate pilots value their own lives and those of their passengers.
I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.
I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it.
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 time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.
I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.
I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.
I can handle heckling on evolution because it's my own field.
I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things.
I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses up in the public square and things like that. I don't fret about that at all; I'm quite happy about that.
I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.
I did a film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a woman playing the cello in the background.
I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject.
I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.
I didn't know children were expected to have literary heroes, but I certainly had one, and I even identified with him at one time: Doctor Dolittle, whom I now half identify with the Charles Darwin of Beagle days.
I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'
I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.
I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.
I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.
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