“For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion.” ThinkingStrongMagicEvolution Author:James G. Frazer
“However much the creationist leaders might hammer away at their scientific and philosophical points, they would be helpless and a laughing-stock if that were all they had. It is religion that recruits their squadrons. Tens of millions of Americans, who neither know nor understand the actual arguments for - of even against - evolution, march in the army of the night, their Bibles held high. And they are a strong and frightening force, impervious to, and immunized against, the feeble lance of mere reason.” IfsKnowsReasonMightWould BeNightStrongForceLeaderMillionsLaughingEvolutionArgumentArmyPhilosophicalMereMarchFrighteningHelplessHammersRecruitImperviousCreationist Author:Isaac Asimov
“I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed.” FeelingsBeautifulStrongSubjectsEvolutionExcuseStrong Feeling Author:Richard Dawkins
“If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to select for a degree of self-deception, rendering some facts and motives unconscious so as not to betray - by the subtle signs of self-knowledge - the deception being practiced.' Thus, 'the conventional view that natural selection favors nervous systems which produce ever more accurate images of the world must be a very naive view of mental evolution.” IfsWorldSelfFactsTurnsStrongNaturalAnimalViewsProduceCommunicationOughtEvolutionDegreesFundamentalsFavorsNervousSpotsDeceptionMotiveUnconsciousSubtleDeceitBetrayAccurateConventionalSelf KnowledgeSelectionNaiveSelectSelf DeceptionNatural SelectionNervous SystemRendering Author:Robert Trivers
“I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of history. Out of the darkness of prehistoric ages man emerges with the marks of his lowly origin strong upon him. He is a brute, only more intelligent than the other brutes, a blind prey to impulses, which as often as not led him to destruction; a victim to endless illusions, which make his mental existence a terror and a burden, and fill his physical life with barren toil and battle.” KnowsMenAgeScienceHumanityStrongExistenceDarknessStudyEvolutionBattleIllusionDestructionMarkIntelligentVictimBlindTerrorBurdenEndlessImpulseToilPreyBrutesBarrenPrehistoricSaddening Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley
“Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.” NeedsMindReasonScienceStrongGrowsLosesPerfectEvolutionSurvivalWeakMajoritySpeciesAcquireAgain And Again Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in evolution.” BelieveWellsPersonsReligionStrongAtheismEvolutionEvidenceEducatedSaneWell EducatedEducated Person Author:Richard Dawkins
“Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us... the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.” IdeasLyingStrongDesignEvolutionIntelligentProofBenevolentAtheisticNonsensical Author:Lord Kelvin
“Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could easily have had no fossils at all, and still the evidence for evolution from other sources, such as molecular genetics and geographical distribution, would be overwhelmingly strong. On the other hand, evolution makes the strong prediction that if a single fossil turned up in the wrong geological stratum, the theory would be blown out of the water.” IfsStillsHandsWould BeReligionStrongWaterTheorySourceEvolutionLuckyEvidenceTinyPredictionsDistributionFossilsCorpsesGeneticsFractions Book:The God Delusion Source: The God Delusion
“There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an inorganic form. This theory can be called the 'general theory of evolution,' and the evidence which supports this is not sufficiently strong to allow us to consider it as anything more than a working hypothesis.” WorldFormStrongSupportTheorySourceEvolutionEvidenceHypothesisTheory Of Evolution Author:Gerald A. Kerkut
“Traditionalists like me believe the USA has become strong because of its core values, the freedom, individual responsibility and institutions like traditional marriage, which foster common goals.” BelieveValuesIndividualStrongGoalCommonResponsibilityEvolutionGayInstitutionsCoreLike MeTraditionalUsaGay MarriageCore ValuesIndividual ResponsibilityCommon GoalTraditional Marriage Author:Bill O'Reilly