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Richard Dawkins is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008.

Dawkins is best known for his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularized the gene-centered view of evolution. He has also written several other books on evolution, including The Blind Watchmaker (1986) and The God Delusion (2006).

Dawkins is a vocal atheist and critic of religion. He has been a major figure in the atheist movement, and his books have been translated into over 25 languages.

Dawkins has won numerous awards for his work, including the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Prize and the Templeton Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dawkins is a controversial figure, and his work has been criticized by some religious leaders and scientists. However, he remains one of the most influential figures in the field of evolutionary biology.

...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.

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Truth

Richard Dawkins

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.

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Inspirational

Richard Dawkins

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

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Science

Richard Dawkins

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.

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Faith

Richard Dawkins

It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

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Science

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