Richard Dawkins
Person on 4 sites
Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist and science communicator.
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7 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 26 Mar 1941, Nairobi, Colonial Kenya (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: Zoology at Balliol College, Oxford (graduated 1962); D.Phil. by 1966 under Nikolaas Tinbergen (opens wiqqi.app)
- Teaching: Assistant professor of zoology at UC Berkeley from 1967 to 1969; lecturer at Oxford from 1970; reader in zoology from 1990 (opens wiqqi.app)
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Newsletter: The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins (opens richarddawkins.substack.com)
“Tankers in the Jungle”
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Newsletter: The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins (opens richarddawkins.substack.com)
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34 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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A historian who presents legends as facts forfeits credibility (opens korrents.com)
“My point is that this historian forfeits all credibility by his habit of wantonly muddling legends with facts.”
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Belief is not something a person can choose (opens korrents.com)
“I don’t think believing is something you can choose to do.”
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Myths and symbols have value, but must be kept clearly apart from factual truth (opens korrents.com)
“I’m not denigrating myths, legends, parables, metaphors, symbols, allegories, fiction, human comfort. All have value. All I’m asking is that we should make a clear distinction between those good things and factual truth.”
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A historian who presents legends as facts forfeits credibility (opens korrents.com)
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1 recommendation on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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PG Wodehouse (opens rcmnd.app)
“PG Wodehouse is my favourite comic author, and I was delighted when the Spectator invited me to have a conversation about his books with Charles Moore, sometime Editor of the magazine.”
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PG Wodehouse (opens rcmnd.app)