Steven Weinberg Discussion (6/8) - 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 ...
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[Steven Weinberg] And as the years went by he gave up alcohol. But he belonged to a sect, the Ahmadi, I think that's what it's called. I'm probably not pronouncing it correctly. That has been officially declared heretic in Pakistan, his home country. And as a result for many years he wasn't allowed back into Pakistan. But he was quite religious about that. I mean... I regard all religion with a... certain sense of bemusement. And the Ahmadi sect seemed even a little bit more peculiar than the other branches of Islam. But he was quite serious about it. He had two wives. -One of whom, an Oxford don. [Richard Dawkins] I know her. Yes. [Weinberg] And the other a very conventional Pakistani woman who lives in London. And they both came to the Nobel Prize in 1979 and they alte...
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[Steven Weinberg] And as the years went by he gave up alcohol. But he belonged to a sect, the Ahmadi, I think that's what it's called. I'm probably not pronouncing it correctly. That has been officially declared heretic in Pakistan, his home country. And as a result for many years he wasn't allowed back into Pakistan. But he was quite religious about that. I mean... I regard all religion with a... certain sense of bemusement. And the Ahmadi sect seemed even a little bit more peculiar than the other branches of Islam. But he was quite serious about it. He had two wives. -One of whom, an Oxford don. [Richard Dawkins] I know her. Yes. [Weinberg] And the other a very conventional Pakistani woman who lives in London. And they both came to the Nobel Prize in 1979 and they alte...
