Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off. <b>Note</b>: Dawkins was quoting a former editor of New Scientist Magazine, who is … - Richard Dawkins

I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours. Just as we don't look back at the 18th and 19th centuries and condemn people for racism in the same way as we would condemn a modern person for racism, I look back a few decades to my childhood and see things like caning, like mild pedophilia, and can't find it in me to condemn it by the same standards as I or anyone would today.

Isn’t it remarkable that almost every child follows the same religion as their parents, and it always just happens to be the right religion!

[...] if I am asked for a single phrase to characterize my role as Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, I think I would claim Advocate for Disinterested Truth.