Biology Quote by Frans de Waal Download Open image “I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.” — Frans de Waal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biology Grounding I think Moral Need Needs Start Thinking
Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really not old… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life. — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“First, where the law is the major source for bioethics, morality is too easily confused with legality and moral questions too quickly reduced to… — Allen Verhey Copy Share Image
“There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort or solace in human terms -- if only… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There's no moral issue for me. I did the best science I could. I was struggling to survive and didn't have the luxury of… — Howard Moskowitz Copy Share Image
We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense. — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“Morality is an evolutionary adaption for any sentient species. Our survival is promoted by working together, and any group requires a moral code to… — Jasper T. Scott Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of. — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
If both parties have a stake in the other, the chances of them killing each other are going to be reduced. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“on August 16, 1996, when an eight-year-old female gorilla named Binti Jua helped a three-year-old boy who had fallen eighteen feet into the primate… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing with sand… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“humans are a strange lot. We have the power to analyze and explore the world around us, yet panic as soon as the evidence… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
“Toshiaki learned that all living organisms were governed by their DNA. He was impressed by perfection of this system.Why did existence have the ability… — Hideaki Sena Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. — Roger Spottiswoode Copy Share Image
Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
“A note of caution: epigenetics is also on the verge of transforming into a dangerous idea. Epigenetic modifications of genes can potentially superpose historical… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
We are coming to a place where the road ends. From here on out, we will be making the road as we walk it,… — Tom Atlee Copy Share Image
