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Richard Dawkins on Science

born 1941 England

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There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.

Unweaving the Rainbow (1998)

Science replaces private prejudice with publicly verifiable evidence.

The Enemies of Reason (2007)

Science is the poetry of reality.

The Enemies of Reason (2007)

This belief, that Darwinian evolution is "random", is not merely false. It is the exact opposite of the truth. Chance is a minor ingredient in the Darwinian recipe, but the most important ingredient is cumulative selection which is quintessentially non-random.

The Blind Watchmaker (1986)

At some point a particularly remarkable molecule was formed by accident. We will call it the Replicator. It may not necessarily have been the biggest or the most complex molecule around, but it had the extraordinary property of being able to create copies of itself.

I think there really is a place for science in literature and I think that may be increasing

Richard Dawkins: Atheist academic calls for religion 'to be offended at every opportunity (2016)

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