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15.57, Saturday 17 Jun 2000 Link to this post

Richard Dawkins replies in an open letter to Prince Charles' Reith Lecture:

But where I allow feelings to influence my aims, when it comes to deciding the best method of achieving them I'd rather think than feel. And thinking, here, means scientific thinking. No more effective method exists. If it did, science would incorporate it.

I must say, Edge looks pretty shithot.


 

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