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“Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.”

Men May Matter Form Conditions Ignorance No Matter What Species Arise Horrible

Author:Honore de Balzac

“One of the most irresponsible things we can do is eat in ignorance, without any awareness of what our eating is doing to the world or to other species.”

World Can Do Awareness Ignorance Eating Species Irresponsible

Author:Michael Pollan

“A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the loss of our ignorance.”

Life Is Loss Ignorance Regret Profound Species Trials

Book:Desultory Thoughts and Reflections

Source: Desultory Thoughts and Reflections

“The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in national competitiveness. There is a moral cost as well. It is an astonishing fact about our species that we understand so much about the history of the universe. the forces that make it tick, the stuff it's made of; the origin of living things, and the machinery of life. A failure to nurture this knowledge shows a philistine indifference to the magnificent achievements humanity is capable of; like allowing a great work of art to molder in a warehouse.”

“There are over a million types of fish in the sea as there are flowers in all of the world's gardens. There are at least a million different types of rocks/minerals as there are species of birds or monkeys. To believe we are the only "intelligent beings" on this earth and beyond is ignorance. The possible configurations of lifeforms that could be created from a single atom are infinite. There are at least a billion people on this earth, and no two faces look the same. It is very arrogant to assume that we have seen all of God's miracles.”

“It is a cause of shame to any member of the human race to be a member of the same species some of whose members could vote for any candidate for president that has been offered by the Republican party. Such people seem to be motivated only by short-sighted greed, ignorance, fear and hatred.”

People Humans Has Beens Seems Causes President Party Race Ignorance Republican Members Hatred Vote Shame Species Greed Human Race Candidates Motivated Republican Party Short Sighted

Author:Allen W. Wood

“...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.”

Humans Human Beings Moral Ignorance Species Tragic Equipment Splendid Pathetic Misuse Propensity

Book:The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

Source: The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

“Abraham Maslow said that the fully realized person transcends his local group and identifies with the species. But the election of Ronald Reagan might've been the beginning of my giving up on my species. Because it was absurd. To this day it remains absurd. More than absurd, it was frightening: it represented the rise to supremacy of darkness, the ascendancy of ignorance.”

Giving Persons Said Might Darkness Groups Ignorance Giving Up Election Remains Species Locals Absurd This Day Frightening Abraham Supremacy Ascendancy

Author:George Carlin

“Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.”

Humans Religious Possibility Ignorance Species Religious Faith Corrections

Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“From a human point of view, the difference between the mind of a human and that of a mountain goat is wonderful; from the point of view of the infinite ignorance that surrounds us, the difference is not impressive. Indeed, from that point of view, the goat may have the better mind, for he is more congenially adapted to his place, and he would not endanger his species or his planet for the sake of an idea.”

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Author:Wendell Berry

“The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation, but the wrong culprit. Human sacrifices were made preeminently in times of epidemics, useless prayers were uttered, bogus miracles attested to, and scapegoats - such as Jews or heretics or witches - hunted down and burned.”

Source: The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)

“Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion.”

World Real Science Belief Understanding Chance Opinion Influence Events Ignorance Species Ignorant Begets

Author:David Hume

“This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor is there in my judgment any excuse for a conflict between science and religion, for their fields are entirely different. Men who know very little of science and men who know very little of religion do indeed get to quarreling, and the onlookers imagine that there is a conflict between science and religion, whereas the conflict is only between two different species of ignorance.”

Knows Men Littles I Can Two Different Imagine Atheism Fields Ignorance Conflict Judgment Bases Species Excuse Denial Imagine That Science And Religion

Author:Robert Andrews Millikan