Thursday, May 05, 2005

Excellent Article and a Quote

I just read this article over at Salon. It is an interview with evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. For the record, yes, I do believe in Evolution.

Here is a quote from the article:

"And those of us fortunate enough to be living today are even more privileged than those of earlier times. We have the benefit of those earlier centuries of scientific exploration. Through no talent of our own, we have the privilege of knowing far more than past centuries. Aristotle would be blown away by what any schoolchild could tell him today. That's the kind of privileged century in which we live. That's what gives my life meaning. And the fact that my life is finite, and that it's the only life I've got, makes me all the more eager to get up each morning and set about the business of understanding more about the world into which I am so privileged to have been born."

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