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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

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Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.

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Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

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It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and...more

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A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles, I am now about to...more

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Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extreme...more

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Science is the poetry of reality.

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A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So...more

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Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuc

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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.

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I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming...more

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Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scien...more

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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.

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If the second dinosaur to the left of the tall cycad tree had not happened to sneeze and thereby fail to catch the tiny, shrew-like ancestor of all th...more

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…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status tha...more