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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because o...more

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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 ti...more

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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 b...more

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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

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It has become almost a cliche 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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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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Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance