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.
Richard Dawkins
More from: Richard Dawkins
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. -
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work. -
Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous. -
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. -
I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.
More quotes by Richard Dawkins
- Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
- I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.
- 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.
- Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.
- Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.