Baptists Quote by E. O. Wilson

If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a…

— Sigmund Freud

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

— Daniel Kahneman

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

— E. O. Wilson

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually…

— Anne Lamott

Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural…

— T. S. Eliot

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have…

— Sigmund Freud

But we are learning from the teaching and example of Jesus that life itself is a religion, that nothing is more sacred than a…

— Anna Howard Shaw

Human beings are religious animals.

— Umberto Eco

This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different…

— John Ortberg

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

— Greg Graffin

Religion's pretty pervasive in humans. And why it's pervasive in humans is debated a lot. There are indications of things that look like religion…

— Hal Whitehead

“In the course of life, all such systems (i.e., the different evolutionary ridges) are somewhat functionally interdependent, as are components within each system (i.e.,…

— Scott Atran