Believe Quote by Tom Stoppard

“Evolution, therefore, cannot account for the origin of our moral feelings, let alone for the fact that we all believe there are external moral…

— Timothy J. Keller

Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance.

— Richard Dawkins

Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an…

— Peter Singer

“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

A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life.

— Paul Bloom

Knowing about the neurobiological and evolutionary basis for social behavior can soften the arrogance and self-righteousness that often attends discussions of morality. It may…

— Patricia Churchland

“What we now call "morality" was evolved – as nearly all social and physical human attributes were – to aid us in survival and,…

— David G. McAfee

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

The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do vary across…

— Steven Pinker

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

As a social primate species, we modulate our morals with signals from family, friends and social groups with whom we identify because in our…

— Michael Shermer

Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a…

— Robert A. Heinlein