Generosity Quote by David C. Stove

Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could…

— Isabella Rossellini

There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And I think…

— Richard Dawkins

One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could…

— Isabella Rossellini

“advocates of evolutionary theory since Thomas H. Huxley (1825–95) have found altruism problematic.”

— Karen Armstrong

Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism.

— Elliott Sober

If evolution is a struggle for survival, why hasn't it ruthlessly eliminated altruists, who seem to increase another's prospects of survival at the cost…

— Peter Singer

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for…

— Lewis Thomas

There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial…

— Neill Blomkamp

“In Victorian times, one of the more serious reasons for opposing Darwin was the fear that his theories would lead to the law of…

— Gary B. Ferngren

“Thus evolved some members of the Core—not altruists, but desperate survivalists who realized that the only way ultimately to win their never-ending zero-sum game…

— Dan Simmons

“In Victorian times, one of the more serious reasons for opposing Darwin was the fear that his theories would lead to the law of…

— Gary B. Ferngren

“If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to…

— Richard Dawkins