Scientist

I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.

I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

Pemisahan tidak memiliki tempat dalam sistem pendidikan.

Bagaimana Anda bisa menganggap serius seseorang yang suka percaya sesuatu karena ia merasa 'nyaman'?

Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

Beauty arises out of human inspiration.

There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say to 140 characters, and it's something that I quite enjoy attempting to do.

Segregation has no place in the education system.

I love words.

A guided missile corrects its trajectory as it flies, homing in, say, on the heat of a jet plane's exhaust. A great improvement on a simple ballistic shell, it still cannot discriminate particular targets. It could not zero in on a designated New York skyscraper if launched from as far away as Boston.

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.

I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it.

I don't think that it's up to government to dictate what people should wear.

I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now, and there is absolutely no tendency for rioting and mayhem, and it is extremely civilised.

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.

We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.

The child has no way of knowing what's good information.