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When I was 10 years old, I loved - I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book I could just afford, and I bo...more

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I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life bu...more

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In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we sh...more

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The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes fr...more

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I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptio...more

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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

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At that moment there was no need of any scientific knowledge to understand his communication of reassurance. The soft pressure of his fingers spoke to...more