Beaten Quote by Daniel Everett

As a scientist, objectivity is one of my most deeply held values. If we could just try harder, I once thought, surely we could…

— Daniel Everett

“There is a certain dignity in going through life without the promise of Heaven or the threat of Hell.”

— Daniel Everett

I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear…

— Daniel Everett

I went from being a Christian missionary to an atheist.

— Daniel Everett

Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique…

— Daniel Everett

There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual…

— Daniel Everett

I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the world, and…

— Daniel Everett

It's wrong to try and convert tribal societies. What should the empirical evidence for religion be? It should produce peaceful, strong, secure people who…

— Daniel Everett

I've learned so much from the Pirahas over the years. But this is perhaps my favorite lesson. Sure, life is hard and there is…

— Daniel Everett

As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to…

— Daniel Everett

Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do…

— Daniel Everett

I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of…

— Daniel Everett