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Top 20 Adam Rutherford Quotes (2024 Update)

Adam Rutherford Quote: “When all you’ve ever known is privilege, equality feels like oppression.”

1. “When all you’ve ever known is privilege, equality feels like oppression.”

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Adam Rutherford Quote: “Alas, we are no more or less evolved than any creature. Uniqueness is terribly overrated.”

2. “Alas, we are no more or less evolved than any creature. Uniqueness is terribly overrated.”

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Adam Rutherford Quote: “For humans, there are no purebloods, only mongrels enriched by the blood of multitudes.”

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

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Adam Rutherford Quote: “Race is a social construct. This does not mean that it is invalid or unimportant.”

4. “Race is a social construct. This does not mean that it is invalid or unimportant.”

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Adam Rutherford Quote: “As Jonathan Swift said in 1721: ‘Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired.”

5. “As Jonathan Swift said in 1721: ‘Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired.”

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Adam Rutherford Quote: “Everyone alive in the tenth century who left descendants is the ancestor of every living European today, including Charlemagne, and his children Drogo, Pippin and, of course, not forgetting Hugh. If.”

6. “Everyone alive in the tenth century who left descendants is the ancestor of every living European today, including Charlemagne, and his children Drogo, Pippin and, of course, not forgetting Hugh. If.”

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Adam Rutherford Quote: “We sometimes forget that though the data should be pure and straightforward, science is done by people, who are never either.”

7. “We sometimes forget that though the data should be pure and straightforward, science is done by people, who are never either.”

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Adam Rutherford Quote: “No one will ever find a gene for “evil,” or for beauty, or for musical genius, or for scientific genius, because they don’t exist. DNA is not destiny. The presence of a particular variant of a particular gene may just have the effect of altering the odds of any particular behavior. More likely, the possession of many slight differences in many genes will have an effect on the likelihood of a particular characteristic, in consort with your environment, which includes all things that are not DNA.”

8. “No one will ever find a gene for “evil,” or for beauty, or for musical genius, or for scientific genius, because they don’t exist. DNA is not destiny. The presence of a particular variant of a particular gene may just have the effect of altering the odds of any particular behavior. More likely, the possession of many slight differences in many genes will have an effect on the likelihood of a particular characteristic, in consort with your environment, which includes all things that are not DNA.”

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Adam Rutherford Quote: “Evolution, blind and slow, has not inched along over billions of years with any intention that it should be decipherable to one or any of its billions of children.”

9. “Evolution, blind and slow, has not inched along over billions of years with any intention that it should be decipherable to one or any of its billions of children.”

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Adam Rutherford Quote: “Genetics is messy and mathematical, but powerful if deployed in the right way. People are horny. Lives are complex. A secret history is truly hidden in the mosaics of our genomes, but caveat emptor. No.”

10. “Genetics is messy and mathematical, but powerful if deployed in the right way. People are horny. Lives are complex. A secret history is truly hidden in the mosaics of our genomes, but caveat emptor. No.”

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Adam Rutherford Quote: “When you have only ever experienced privilege, equality feels like oppression.”

11. “When you have only ever experienced privilege, equality feels like oppression.”

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Adam Rutherford Quote: “Nevertheless, every Nazi has Jewish ancestors. Every white supremacist has Middle Eastern ancestors. Every racist has African, Indian, Chinese, Native American, aboriginal Australian ancestors, as well as everyone else, and not just in the sense that humankind is an African species in deep prehistory, but at a minimum from classical times, and probably much more recently. Racial purity is a pure fantasy. For humans, there are no purebloods, only mongrels enriched by the blood of multitudes.”

12. “Nevertheless, every Nazi has Jewish ancestors. Every white supremacist has Middle Eastern ancestors. Every racist has African, Indian, Chinese, Native American, aboriginal Australian ancestors, as well as everyone else, and not just in the sense that humankind is an African species in deep prehistory, but at a minimum from classical times, and probably much more recently. Racial purity is a pure fantasy. For humans, there are no purebloods, only mongrels enriched by the blood of multitudes.”

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Adam Rutherford Quote: “As a species, all the things we do are unique, and are also seen all over the natural world.”

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

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Adam Rutherford Quote: “Scientific racism’ or ‘race science’ are both misnomers. These are pseudoscientific domains.”

14. “Scientific racism’ or ‘race science’ are both misnomers. These are pseudoscientific domains.”

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Adam Rutherford Quote: “Except if you’re of European descent. Your lactase continues to work throughout your life. This unusual phenomenon is called lactase persistence, and although a splash of milk in tea is the English way, and even a mug of hot chocolate might seem very normal to us, we are the weird ones.”

15. “Except if you’re of European descent. Your lactase continues to work throughout your life. This unusual phenomenon is called lactase persistence, and although a splash of milk in tea is the English way, and even a mug of hot chocolate might seem very normal to us, we are the weird ones.”

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Adam Rutherford Quote: “This is an absence of evidence, which we scientists like to remind people is not the same as evidence of absence.”

16. “This is an absence of evidence, which we scientists like to remind people is not the same as evidence of absence.”

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Adam Rutherford Quote: “We look to statistcs for reassurance in these types of situations. Here is one: 100% of mass shootings have been enabled by access to guns. I can guarantee that even if there were a genotype shared by the mass shooters, which there will not be, none of the killings would have happened if they didn’t have guns.”

17. “We look to statistcs for reassurance in these types of situations. Here is one: 100% of mass shootings have been enabled by access to guns. I can guarantee that even if there were a genotype shared by the mass shooters, which there will not be, none of the killings would have happened if they didn’t have guns.”

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Adam Rutherford Quote: “Almost all science is done by very normal people.”

18. “Almost all science is done by very normal people.”

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Adam Rutherford Quote: “Are we slaves or masters of our genes? We are neither, and it’s a dumb, simplistic question.”

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

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Adam Rutherford Quote: “Race is real because we perceive it. Racism is real because we enact it. Neither race nor racism has foundations in science. It is our duty to contest the warping of scientific research, especially if it is being used to justify prejudice. If you are a racist, then you are asking for a fight. But science is my ally, not yours, and your fight is not just with me, but with reality.”

20. “Race is real because we perceive it. Racism is real because we enact it. Neither race nor racism has foundations in science. It is our duty to contest the warping of scientific research, especially if it is being used to justify prejudice. If you are a racist, then you are asking for a fight. But science is my ally, not yours, and your fight is not just with me, but with reality.”

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Adam Rutherford Quote: “Anti-Semitism is one of the only forms of racial bigotry that punches upwards to perceived power.”

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

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Adam Rutherford Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

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