Moral principles Quote by James Luceno

“In short, we evolved, like other animals, to win the reproduction game. That contest has a single aim, to leave as many descendants as…

— Jared Diamond

“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“I mean to say, we all sprang from humble origins. Goodness gracious, who would have thought that a species of monkey would take over…

— R. Chetwynd-Hayes

“But Natural Selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as…

— Charles Darwin

“the Darwinian world of nature, however, which they claim is the only one, there can be no such things as rights, either for humans…

— C.R. Hallpike

“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

“Better choices require some thought and sacrifice but are respectful of other thoughtful and innovative animals with which we live. And ultimately our tough…

— John M. Marzluff

“When animal rights activists or moral philosophers try to draw moral judgments about wild animal populations, they often suffer from a bad case of…

— John Durant

“Natural selection is a beguiling counterfeiter of deliberate purpose.”

— Richard Dawkins

“But the very fact that Darwinism is true makes it even more important for us to fight against the naturally selfish and exploitative tendencies…

— Richard Dawkins

“Genetic evolutionists warn that if we fail to apply the lessons of our shared genetic destiny, which should be teaching us the importance of…

— Bruce H. Lipton

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it…

— Paul Bettany