The very large brain that humans have, plus the things that go along with it - language, art, science - seemed to have evolved only once. The eye, by... →
Richard Dawkins
I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our... →
How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of... →
The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.
Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things, too.
Public sharing is an important part of science.
Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.
Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.
To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.
What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I haven't decided yet.