Quotes from Adam Rutherford

It behoves us all to confront racism wherever we find it, especially when it is covert or normalised in stereotypes and myth, and science is a weapon in that contest. The academic and political activist Angela Davis said that 'in a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.

Are we slaves or masters of our genes? We are neither, and it's a dumb, simplistic question.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge . . . says Darwin in The Descent of Man, his

As a species, all the things we do are unique, and are also seen all over the natural world.

Anti-Semitism is one of the only forms of racial bigotry that punches upwards to perceived power

For humans, there are no purebloods, only mongrels enriched by the blood of multitudes.