Editing Harry Kroto (section)

===Personal beliefs===
Kroto was a "devout atheist"<ref name="nobel"/> who thought that beliefs in immortality derive from lack of the courage to accept human mortality.<ref name="Nobel Autobiography" /> He was a patron of the [[British Humanist Association]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://humanism.org.uk/about/our-people/patrons/professor-sir-harold-kroto-frs/|title=Professor Sir Harold Kroto FRS|access-date=2 May 2016|publisher=[[British Humanist Association]]|date=2012-05-24}}</ref> He was a supporter of [[Amnesty International]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3096030.Harry_Kroto|title=Harry W. Kroto quotes|website=Goodreads|access-date=31 August 2014}}</ref> He referred to his view that [[Dogma|religious dogma]] causes people to accept unethical or inhumane actions: "The only mistake [[Bernard Madoff|Bernie Madoff]] made was to promise returns in ''this'' life."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/jul/01/religion-euthanasia|title=The curse of religion|author=AC Grayling|newspaper=The Guardian|date=July 2009}}</ref> He held that scientists had a responsibility to work for the benefit of the entire species.<ref>{{cite web|title=Think About It: Nobel Prize Winner Sir Harold Kroto Throws Down the Gauntlet|url=http://www.eln.slas.org/story/1/74-think-about-it-nobel-prize-winner-sir-harold-kroto-throws-down-the-gauntlet-|access-date=6 September 2014|archive-date=13 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413101352/http://www.eln.slas.org/story/1/74-think-about-it-nobel-prize-winner-sir-harold-kroto-throws-down-the-gauntlet-|url-status=dead}}</ref> On 15 September 2010, Kroto, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in ''[[The Guardian]]'', stating their opposition to [[Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom|Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the UK]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/15/harsh-judgments-on-pope-religion|title=Letters: Harsh judgments on the pope and religion|work=The Guardian|access-date=16 September 2010 | location=London | date=15 September 2010}}</ref>

Kroto was an early Signatory of [[Asteroid Day]].<ref name="Observer">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/13/asteroid-day-anniversary-tunguska-siberia|title=Asteroid Day tries to save life as we know it|work=The Observer|date=13 June 2015|access-date=13 June 2015}}</ref><ref name="Asteroid Day">{{cite web|url=http://asteroidday.org/page/harold-kroto/|title=Sir Harry Kroto Official page on Asteroid Day|publisher=Asteroid Day|access-date=2 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604140426/http://asteroidday.org/page/harold-kroto/|archive-date=4 June 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2008, Kroto was critical of [[Michael Reiss]] for directing the teaching of [[creationism]] alongside evolution.<ref>{{cite news |first=Harry |last=Kroto |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/sep/28/religion |title=Blinded by a divine light |work=The Guardian |date=28 September 2008 |access-date=12 May 2016 }}</ref>

Kroto praised the increase of organized online information as an "Educational Revolution" and named it as the "GooYouWiki" world referring to Google, YouTube and Wikipedia.<ref>{{cite web |first=Barry |last=Ray |url=http://news.fsu.edu/More-FSU-News/24-7-News-Archive/2012/October/Kroto-to-lead-discussion-The-GooYouWiki-World-and-the-Educational-Revolution |title=FSU professor, Nobel laureate Kroto to lead discussion, 'The GooYouWiki World and the Educational Revolution' |publisher=FSU |date=16 October 2012 |access-date=12 May 2016 }}</ref>