Nico Tinbergen was my doctoral supervisor, and he was a benign, avuncular sort of influence; everybody loved him. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes avuncular benign doctoral
Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something to do. Richard Dawkins exultmysteriousmystery Change image and share on social
I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women. Richard Dawkins burkafeeloppression Change image and share on social
Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy. Richard Dawkins agnosticatheistdisprove Change image and share on social
Perhaps the more benign and poetic sense of God is established when we are babies in the moments of primal joy we might call 'the epiphanies of infancy' - the sensation of being blissfully held and feeling complete and at one with everything - yet having no words or no need to say it but instead to just assimilate the feeling. Michael Leunig assimilatebabybenign share on social
Abbas is on his way to becoming a professor of terrorism. After denying the Holocaust in his doctoral thesis, he now claims that Hamas is not a terrorist organization. Danny Danon abbasclaimdeny Change image and share on social