Biology Quote by Richard Dawkins Download Open image “I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.” — Richard Dawkins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biology Biology Free Comfortable Comfortable Idea Free Free will I am Idea Override Ideas Override Override Biology Will
From spending my decades thinking about behavior and the biological influences on it, I'm convinced by now free will is what we call the… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“If organisms indeed lack free will, it implies that we can manipulate and even control their desires using drugs, genetic engineering or direct brain… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
As we decipher our biology and learn to modify and adjust it, we are learning to modify ourselves - and we will do so.… — Gregory Stock Copy Share Image
“It is hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behavior is determined by physical law, so it seems that we are… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I used to very politely say that if there is free will then it's in all sorts of boring places, like whether you're going… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“It is generally argued that our experience of free will presents a compelling mystery: On the one hand, we can't make sense of it… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our own history… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In philosophy, they talk a lot about humans being actual organic machines, and the idea of free will is something that we've made up.… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and… — Richard Dawkins 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
