“I do go ahead and consider myself a religious person.”

Meaning of Life interview (2008)
Context: There are all sorts of transcendent response on offer but they to my mind are not necessary to call oneself religious. And obviously this is … semantics as much as anything else. But I do go ahead and consider myself a religious person.

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American biologist 1943

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