“Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean that religion can. It's a simple and logical fallacy to say, ' If science can't do something, therefore religion can.”

—  Richard Dawkins

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English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author 1941

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