Richard Dawkins
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You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world, you also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues. ✨ The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder. BBC1 Television, November 12, 1996.

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