Steven Weinberg Discussion (1/8) - Richard Dawkins
Buy it now on DVD at http://richarddawkins.net/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=60 DURING HIS U.S. TOUR in 2008, Biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins...
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♪ (intro style jazz music) ♪ [Dawkins] Well Steven, I find myself somewhat in awe, both as- with one of the world's most distinguished scientists, but also a physicist; where physics is in some sense a sort of senior science, the bedrock of all other sciences- I'm a mere biologist. I suppose biology has the complexity, but physics has the fundamentals. [Weinberg] Of course, we physicists feel that way, but we're much too polite to say so. [Dawkins] (amused chuckle) Yes, um, it has been said that, um, where as most distinguished scientists tend not to be religious believers, um, there's a slight tendency for biologists to be even more atheistic than- [Weinberg] I've heard that, yes. [Dawkins]...than physicists. You have heard that. ...
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♪ (intro style jazz music) ♪ [Dawkins] Well Steven, I find myself somewhat in awe, both as- with one of the world's most distinguished scientists, but also a physicist; where physics is in some sense a sort of senior science, the bedrock of all other sciences- I'm a mere biologist. I suppose biology has the complexity, but physics has the fundamentals. [Weinberg] Of course, we physicists feel that way, but we're much too polite to say so. [Dawkins] (amused chuckle) Yes, um, it has been said that, um, where as most distinguished scientists tend not to be religious believers, um, there's a slight tendency for biologists to be even more atheistic than- [Weinberg] I've heard that, yes. [Dawkins]...than physicists. You have heard that. ...
