Scientist Quotes

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.
What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of them is in any sense ancestral to any other; none of them is more primitive than any other. We are all modern races of exactly equal status, evolutionarily speaking.
What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views.
'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.
What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.
What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I haven't decided yet.
What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?
When a company seeks a new chief executive officer, or a university a new vice-chancellor, enormous trouble is taken to find the best person.
When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.
When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.
When the ancestors of the cheetah first began pursuing the ancestors of the gazelle, neither of them could run as fast as they can today.
When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course the system is wide open to exploitation by parasites.
Why are we so obsessed with monogamous fidelity?
Why did humans lose their body hair? Why did they start walking on their hind legs? Why did they develop big brains? I think that the answer to all three questions is sexual selection.
Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.
You can legally lie about the real world to your heart's content, but until some human being is materially damaged, nobody will complain.
You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.
You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'
You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.
A lot of medicines are not there to cure diseases. That's fine - drugs that keep people alive who wouldn't otherwise be alive are useful. What I object to is the drug companies' advertising, which you see everywhere in the U.S., which claims that they are curing diseases when they're not.
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