26 Quotes by Adam Rutherford

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

All scientists need to be wrong as often as they can be, for that is the place from which we discover what is correct, and inch ever closer to the truth.

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

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

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

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

No matter the languages we speak or the colour of our skin, we share ancestors who planted rice on the banks of the Yangtze, who first domesticated horses on the steppes of the Ukraine, who hunted giant sloths in the forests of North and South America, and who laboured to build the Great Pyramid of Khufu.

We look to statistics 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.

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