Faith Quote by Robert Wright

Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

— Daniel Dennett

“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

“Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences increasingly competent to deal with the laws of nature.”

— Carl Sagan

People need to realize that their thoughts are more primary than their genes, because the environment, which is influenced by our thoughts, controls the…

— Bruce H. Lipton

“humans are born with brains structured to make sense of the world, and that often leads to beliefs that go beyond any natural explanation.”

— David DiSalvo

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but…

— Paul Bloom

“the popular conception of the gene as a simple causal agent is not valid. The idea that there is a gene for adventurousness, heart…

— Eva Jablonka

Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain…

— Steven Pinker

“That genes explain our behaviour and well-being distracts attention from society as a cause; such ideas also encourage us to accept or pursue chemical,…

— Oliver James

“Genes aren’t designed to make us happy. They design us to make more copies of themselves.”

— Joe Quirk

“Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the continuous present…

— Henry Gee