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I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.Collection: Richard
Einstein was adamant in rejecting all ideas of a personal god.Collection: Richard
The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two miracles.Collection: Richard
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.Collection: Richard
The very large brain that humans have, plus the things that go along with it - language, art, science - seemed to have evolved only once. The eye, by contrast, independently evolved 40 times. So, if you were to 'replay' evolution, the eye would almost certainly appear again, whereas the big brain probably wouldn't.Collection: Richard
If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.Collection: Richard
People say I'm shrill and strident.Collection: Richard
How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diversity, but it should be unthinkable in the 21st century to have a school whose head of science believes the world is less than 10,000 years old.Collection: Richard
Don't kid yourself that you're going to live again after you're dead; you're not. Make the most of the one life you've got. Live it to the full.Collection: Richard
I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it.Collection: Richard
I think that people in the Bible Belt are far less monolithically religious than many people imagine. There are lots and lots of people who are free-thinking, secularists, or atheists in the so-called Bible Belt.Collection: Richard
Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear.Collection: Richard
What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.Collection: Richard
Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.Collection: Richard
I want very much to communicate science to as wide an audience as possible, but not at a cost of dumbing down, and not at a cost in getting things right.Collection: Richard
If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.Collection: Richard
Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.Collection: Richard
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.Collection: Richard
There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say to 140 characters, and it's something that I quite enjoy attempting to do.Collection: Richard
Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.Collection: Richard
How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'?Collection: Richard
The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the sins that all we unborn generations might have been contemplating in the future. Adam's sin is perhaps mitigated by the extenuating circumstance that he didn't exist.Collection: Richard
Evolution never looks to the future.Collection: Richard
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.Collection: Richard
The truth was, there was never a connection between Iraq and Osama Bin Laden. There were no weapons of mass destruction, either.Collection: Richard
If you're in part of rebel-controlled Syria, and suddenly your house blows up or a building next to you blows up, it would be convenient for rebels to say, 'It was the Americans.'Collection: Richard
I think the Chinese model is one that appeals more and more in the developing world. People see that an authoritarian state can hold onto power, can hold on to stability and can drive the economy forward.Collection: Richard
When you look at - when you talk to people in Africa and across the Middle East, they're not satisfied with the way things are going. Sure, this idea of democracy was injected into the region, but it has brought mostly chaos.Collection: Richard
Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.Collection: Richard
Israel is shutting out the Arab world and shutting itself in.Collection: Richard
Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing.Collection: Richard
Egypt has a devout population. People go out, they pray, they fast.Collection: Richard
It's probably time to end the global war on terrorism.Collection: Richard
Osama bin Laden organized an attack that was carried out against the United States, New York, Pentagon, and the other aircraft, with 19 attackers, 19 guys with box cutters. An attack that probably cost almost nothing.Collection: Richard
I think it's really important to start thinking about infrastructure as essential national security.Collection: Richard
The Iraqi government will try and retake some of the cities have that been captured by ISIS. That means the Shiite government dropping bombs on civilian areas, on Sunni cities. There will likely be a response with car bombings here in Baghdad, and this could be a long fight.Collection: Richard
'TIME's spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me.Collection: Richard
It's a fallacy, long rebuffed by science, that humans use only about 10% of their brainpower. But it is true about most summer movies. Pouring their wizardry into special effects and well-choreographed fights, warm-weather action films rarely challenge the viewer with grand notions or beautifully baffling imagery.Collection: Richard
Viewers who invest two hours in a superhero movie often leave feeling entertained but somehow dumber.Collection: Richard
Famous for his 'Maverick' Western series in the 1950s and 'The Rockford Files' in the '70s, and in movies like 'The Great Escape' and 'Grand Prix' in between, James Garner played amiable, independent characters for more than a half-century and never lost his comforting, enduring appeal.Collection: Richard
'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,' while not nearly the masterpiece proclaimed by many critics, is certainly a fascinating cross-species: a big-budget summer action fantasy with a sylvan, indie-film vibe, and a war movie that dares ask its audience to root for the peacemakers.Collection: Richard
A home movie of a fictional home life, an epic assembled from vignettes, 'Boyhood' shimmers with unforced reality. It shows how an ordinary life can be reflected in an extraordinary movie.Collection: Richard
We all recall what is or was important to us and are astonished when it slips other people's minds. Perhaps we dismiss as irrelevant matters of crucial concern to those we love. That's life as most of us experience it, and which few movies document with such understated acuity as 'Boyhood' does.Collection: Richard
Has any movie captured a moment in social, let alone musical, history with as much acuity and joy as 'A Hard Day's Night'?Collection: Richard
'Tammy,' the new movie starring, produced, and co-written by Melissa McCarthy, could be an artifact from some alternate universe: the creatures there resemble Earthlings but have an entirely different and debased idea of what's funny.Collection: Richard
In film schools of the future, professors will teach 'Tammy' as an object lesson in Making Everything Go Wrong.Collection: Richard
The music was the best thing about the Four Seasons and the central asset of the 'Jersey Boys' show. By concentrating on the group's personal wrangling, to the near exclusion of their songs, Clint Eastwood has jettisoned the joy and made this a one-Season movie: winter in New Jersey. And, man, that's bleak.Collection: Richard
On 'American Top 40' the Kasem voice soared and swooped, like an expert aural acrobat, through promos, jingles and dedications, usually rising to a dramatic peak for the top-selling song of the week.Collection: Richard
Casey Kasem not only played the music of the stars, he also reached the sunniest-sounding celebrity on his very own. Listening to him on the radio, you could hear America smiling.Collection: Richard