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There is something cheap about magic that works just because it is magic.

We frequently look into the future of mankind and see dangers. We see if we carry on doing what we are doing in 20 years' time there will be no rainforests left, just to use one example. Looking into the future may be one of the reasons that brains evolved in the first place.

From Richard Dawkins

In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

From Richard Dawkins

Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.

From Richard Dawkins

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction. I like science fiction where there's a scientific lesson, for example - when the science fiction book changes one thing but leaves the rest of science intact and explores the consequences of that. That's actually very valuable.

From Richard Dawkins

I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.

From Richard Dawkins

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.

From Richard Dawkins

I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.

From Richard Dawkins

It doesn't hurt my feeling when I get vilified by fundamentalist religious people. I've actually made comedy out of it. I've made light of that.

From Richard Dawkins

I don't do formal debates, because formal debates where you have two people up on a stage in equal status, and each of them is given 20 minutes to give their point of view, and then 10 minutes for a rebuttal, or whatever, that creates the illusion that you really do have here two equal points of view of equal scientific standing.

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