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Why did humans lose their body hair? Why did they start walking on their hind legs? Why did they develop big brains? I think that the answer to all three questions is sexual selection.Collection: Richard
I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses up in the public square and things like that. I don't fret about that at all; I'm quite happy about that.Collection: Richard
I love words.Collection: Richard
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.Collection: Richard
I can handle heckling on evolution because it's my own field.Collection: Richard
I've never been the sort of firebrand that I've been made out to be. I'm actually quite a mild person.Collection: Richard
In the original introduction to the word meme in the last chapter of 'The Selfish Gene,' I did actually use the metaphor of a 'virus.' So when anybody talks about something going viral on the Internet, that is exactly what a meme is, and it looks as though the word has been appropriated for a subset of that.Collection: Richard
My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.Collection: Richard
Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.Collection: Richard
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.Collection: Richard
Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far wider than anybody I know.Collection: Richard
I don't think that it's up to government to dictate what people should wear.Collection: Richard
I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?Collection: Richard
I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.Collection: Richard
It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.Collection: Richard
There are quite a lot of YouTube clips of me that have gone viral. One that I think of is of a young woman at a lecture I was giving - she came from Liberty University, which is a ludicrous religious institution. She said, 'What if you are wrong?' and I answered that rather briefly, and that's gone viral.Collection: Richard
I don't feel depressed. I feel elated.Collection: Richard
Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results.Collection: Richard
I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and nursing. It's a lawyer-driven insistence on meeting prescribed standards rather than just being a good doctor.Collection: Richard
When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.Collection: Richard
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 time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.Collection: Richard
The state of Israel seems to owe its very existence to the American Jewish vote, while at the same time consigning the non-religious to political oblivion.Collection: Richard
I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'Collection: Richard
It's a difficult business, finding out what's true about the world, the universe.Collection: Richard
Public sharing is an important part of science.Collection: Richard
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.Collection: Richard
God stands out in the universe as the most glaring of all superfluous sore thumbs.Collection: Richard
Either Jesus had a father, or he didn't. The question is a scientific one, and scientific evidence, if any were available, would be used to settle it.Collection: Richard
I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.Collection: Richard
It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.Collection: Richard
I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.Collection: Richard
If I say that I am more interested in preventing the slaughter of large whales than I am in improving housing conditions for people, I am likely to shock some of my friends.Collection: Richard
At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.Collection: Richard
There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. We shouldn't be too surprised about that because we're evolved to understand things that move at a medium pace at a medium scale. We can't cope with the very tiny scale of quantum physics or the very large scale of relativity.Collection: Richard
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.Collection: Richard
In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party.Collection: Richard
Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments.Collection: Richard
I think the world's always a better place if people are filled with understanding.Collection: Richard
Placebos work.Collection: Richard
Dissent is difficult. It can constitute a real dilemma for the person who disagrees.Collection: Richard
Dissent is as American as cherry pie.Collection: Richard
Foreign policy must be about priorities. The United States cannot do everything everywhere.Collection: Richard
Terrorism is a decentralized phenomenon - in its funding, planning, and execution.Collection: Richard
America must reduce its fiscal deficit, modernize its infrastructure, and improve its schools.Collection: Richard
The horror and tragedy that was 9/11 did many things; one of them was to galvanize this country and much of the world against terrorists and those who support them.Collection: Richard
Homegrown terrorists are a real problem for even the most modern, democratic societies.Collection: Richard
On occasion, terrorists will succeed despite our best efforts. That is part of the legacy of 9/11. But 9/11 also shows us that while terrorists can destroy, they are unable to create.Collection: Richard
American influence in the world depends on the ability to act with real capacity and set an example that others will want to follow. This all takes resources.Collection: Richard
If you assume away most or all of the questions or difficulties, you can persuade yourself of just about anything.Collection: Richard