“I don't want to sound callous. I mean, even if I have nothing to offer, that doesn't matter, because that still doesn't mean that what anybody else has to offer therefore has to be true.”

— Richard Dawkins

An Interview by Sheena McDonald (1995)

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English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author 1941

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