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Summer Reads

Richard Dawkins - BBC 4 Front Row

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From BBC Radio 4 Front Row

Originally posted July 14, 2003

SUMMER READS: RICHARD DAWKINS
Today we also begin a weekly series of Summer Reads, where Front Row asks well-known figures from the arts to recommend their favourite reading for the summer holidays.

Tonight Professor Richard Dawkins, author of many groundbreaking works on evolutionary biology including The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker takes us through his choices:

The Lion Children by Angus, Maisie and Travers McNeice from Weidenfeld and Nicolson

Red Strangers by Elspeth Huxley from Penguin

The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan from Hodder Headline

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Quotes of Note:

"(Religion) With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion"

Steven Weinberg

"There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out."

Richard Dawkins

"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."

Richard Dawkins

"...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong."

Richard Dawkins

"Sex brought into existence the gene pool, made meaningful the species, and changed the whole ball game of evolution itself."

Richard Dawkins