Richard Dawkins
Reg Naulty considers one of the most controversial scientists of today
Richard Dawkins is not at all the misanthrope, thinking poisonous thoughts about humanity, which some people suppose. On the contrary; he loved his parents, his boyhood in Africa, Oxford, science, poetry, music and many of his colleagues. He had fond parents. His father, a botanist who had studied at Oxford and Cambridge, was a good family man. His mother was kind, considerate and devoted to her children. They made sacrifices for his education. He scraped into Oxford, but the education he received in the Zoology Department was, technically anyway, beyond praise, and filled him with enthusiasm for zoology and science.
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