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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#belief #institutions #into #passage #power

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#being #beings #complication #deal #emphasis

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 time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#attack #defending #deliberate #devote #enough

Natural selection is anything but random. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#natural #natural selection #random #selection

People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment. ↗

— Claudia Black

#coming #deal #deals #employment #great

The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they're forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again. ↗

— Claudia Black

#again #become #before #crew #every

The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth. ↗

— Clint Black

#avoid #because #bizarre #desperate #driven

Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think. ↗

— Clint Black

#boundaries #certainly #country #country radio #door

I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song. ↗

— Clint Black

#been #captured #christmas #explained #feel

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#among #anything #certain #course #discussed