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People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you’d never be confident of things like ‘My wife loves me’. But this is a bad argument. There can be plenty of evidence that somebody loves you. All through the day when you are with somebody who loves you, you see and hear lots of little tidbits of evidence, and they all add up. It isn’t purely inside feeling, like the feeling that priests call revelation. There are outside things to back up the inside feeling: looks in the eye, tender notes in the voice, little favors and kindnesses; this is all real evidence.

Richard Dawkins on evidence in science, life and love – a wonderful letter to his daughter upon her 10th birthday.

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I certainly want [my readers] to think like scientists – to think critically, skeptically – but I also want them to be imbued with the poetry of the universe, the poetry of reality, which is what science is.

Richard Dawkins, echoing the famous words of Richard Feynman and Carl Sagan, in this great BBC 4 Radio interview.

Also see Dawkins’s The Magic of Reality, a children’s book debunking religious mythology with the awe of science.

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“Your 185-millionth great-grandfather was a fish.”

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, originator of the world “meme,”explains why there was no such thing as a first human being in a short but mind-bending interview about his children’s book on evolution, The Magic of Reality.

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