Storytelling Quote by Edward O. Wilson Download Open image ““The creation myth is a Darwinian device for survival.”” — Edward O. Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Storytelling
“Teaching the myth of creation to the students instead of teaching them the fact of evolution is nothing but an act of ultimate ignorance!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution. — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
“The challenge of creation reduces us to the inevitable. Our lives are full of tiny disasters.” — Floriano Martins Copy Share Image
“Natural selection has destroyed the proof for the miraculous specific intervention of the Creator. But it has left us with the marvel of the… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“We are not saying that Evolution can't exist, only that it is guided by His Noodly Appendage.” — Bobby Henderson Copy Share Image
“There is a Divine Providence operating over and above the materialistic happenings of biological evolution.” — John C. Eccles Copy Share Image
“Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Being quite a Darwinian creature feature I have to add, that only the fittest of survival will finish this book anyway,” — Steve Merrick Copy Share Image
“Man has been evolved and created the gods. Evolved more and decided to destroy all of them.” — Emil A. Zafirov Copy Share Image
“The theory of evolution also had a very great effect in alienating science from religion and creating a world in which one could go… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Nature is the birthright of everyone on Earth. The millions of species we have allowed to survive are our phylogenetic kin. Their long-term history… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Traditional religious beliefs have been eroded, not so much by humiliating disproofs of their mythologies as by the growing awareness that beliefs are really… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.” — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Overall, it seems now possible to draw a reasonably good explanation of why the human condition is a singularity, why the likes of it… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“let’s also promote the humanities, that which makes us human, and not use science to mess around with the wellspring of this, the absolute… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Moreover, we look in vain to philosophy for the answer to the great riddle. Despite its noble purpose and history, pure philosophy long ago… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Annie Dillard was a pioneer in her Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974. Among other notable examples are David… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Human beings and their social orders are intrinsically imperfectible and fortunately so. In a constantly changing world, we need the flexibility that only imperfection… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Another principle that I believe can be justified by scientific evidence so far is that nobody is going to emigrate from this planet not… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“To explore and affiliate with life is a deep and complicated process in mental development. To an extent still undervalued in philosophy and religion,… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Social intelligence was therefore always at a high premium. A sharp sense of empathy can make a huge difference, and with it in an… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the roots of… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Anyway, it's a pretty good story," I said. "You have to admit." "Yeah?" He crumpled up the Kleenex, having dispatched the solitary tear. "You… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative. — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. — John Berger Copy Share Image
Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored and unwanted… — Tudor Parfitt Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get there in… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
“We take creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
