Books Do Furnish a Life Quotes

“That 45 per cent figure really is something of a national educational disgrace. You’d have to travel right past Europe to the theocratic societies around the Middle East before you hit a comparable level of anti-scientific miseducation. It is bafflingly paradoxical that the United States is by far the world’s leading scientific nation while simultaneously housing the most scientifically illiterate populace outside the Third World.”
― Richard Dawkins, Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science

“45 per cent of the population of the United States firmly believes, to the contrary, an elementary falsehood: that all species separately owe their existence to ‘intelligent design’ less than ten thousand years ago.”
― Richard Dawkins, Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science