The Universe: Queerer Than We Suppose (Video)

June 1, 2007 by Geeks are Sexy | 1 comment

Richard Dawkins is Oxford University’s “Professor for the Public Understanding of Science.” Author of the landmark 1976 book, The Selfish Gene, he’s a brilliant (and trenchant) evangelist for Darwin’s ideas. In this talk, titled, “Queerer Than We Suppose: The strangeness of science,” he suggests that the true nature of the universe eludes us, because the human mind evolved only to understand the “middle-sized” world we can observe. (Recorded in July 2005 at the TEDTalks conference. Duration: 22:42)

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