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Most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.

There is more to biology than rats, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis, and E. coli.

I feel that one species, mankind, doesn't have the right to exterminate

In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts.

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

I did not claim that speciation occurs only in founder populations.

All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts