“Science tries to answer the question: "How?" How do cells act in the body? How do you design an airplane that will fly faster thansound? How is a molecule of insulin constructed? Religion, by contrast, tries to answer the question: "Why?" Why was man created? Why ought I to tell the truth? Why must there be sorrow or pain or death? Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.” PeopleMenTryingBodyPainScienceReligionAnswersAnimalDesignOughtSorrowBehaviorConcernCellsFasterBehaveTelling The TruthContrastAirplaneQuestsMoleculesInsulin Author:Warren Weaver
“The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.” LifePersonsScienceOrderDecisionSituationSpecialBehaviorMadnessStrategySchizophrenic Author:R. D. Laing
“In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. (13)” FactsScienceJoyMemoriesIdentitySorrowBehaviorAmbitionLateCellsFree WillNervesAssemblyMoleculesPersonal Identity Author:Mary Roach
“To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.” HumansLongScienceProcessTermHuman NatureEvolutionLimitsBehaviorDeeperLong TermSignificanceHuman BehaviorDeeper Meaning Author:E. O. Wilson
“While our behavior is still significantly controlled by our genetic inheritance, we have, through our brains, a much richer opportunity to blaze new behavioral and cultural pathways on short timescales.” StillsScienceOpportunityBrainEvolutionBehaviorControlledBehaviourInheritancePathways Book:Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence Source: Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
“Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.” MenLifeFirstsSoulScienceAnimalProgressBehaviorSurvivalEthicsIntelligentInstinctPrimariesEthicalIngenuityEthical Behavior Author:Charlie Chaplin