Convenience Quote by Richard Dawkins Download Open image “If it is solely an evolutionary convenience, there is really no such thing as good or evil.” — Richard Dawkins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Convenience Evil Ifs
Humans are born with a hard-wired morality: a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. I know this claim might sound… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because it provides… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution. — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
“Good" is what helps us or at least does not hinder. "Evil" is whatever harms us or interferes with us, according to our own… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good. — C. S. Lewis 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
It was only when I started making short films in college and I was looking for girls to play the me-ish parts that I… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
“A phone call should be a convenience to the caller, not an inconvenience to the called.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians. — Sylvia Porter Copy Share Image
What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
If you spot a market where the only choices are at either one end or the other - high fidelity or high convenience -… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love, the sanctity… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image