Richard Dawkins | "Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution."

"Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

Evolution, Perfection, Vanity, Time

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"Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution."

"It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics."

Science

"Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?"

Thought

"Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility."

Winning

"But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience."

Experience

"If the second dinosaur to the left of the tall cycad tree had not happened to sneeze and thereby fail to catch the tiny, shrew-like ancestor of all the mammals, we should none of us be here."

Science

"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."

Religion

"The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing."

Philosophy

"More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding."

Religion

"People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design."

Philosophy

"What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?"

Philosophy

"I [Jacob Hunt, Aspie] see it as the next step of evolution: I cannot take away your sadness, so why should I acknowledge it?"

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"The very large brain that humans have, plus the things that go along with it - language, art, science - seemed to have evolved only once. The eye, by contrast, independently evolved 40 times. So, if you were to 'replay' evolution, the eye would almost certainly appear again, whereas the big brain probably wouldn't."

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"Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution."

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"We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and what-ifs and talk about things that are not present."

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"The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance."

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"What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity."

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"Homosexuality is neither a sin, nor an anomaly or a disease. It is an evolutionary variation."

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"Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species."

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"I have outgrown so much, I think at some point we all do ~ we reach a stage in our life where we are forced to make a change, forced to cut friendships, relationships, jobs and places we once called home. At the time, it all feels a little overwhelming nothing stays the same and you have to learn your footing again but I can reassure you once you create the path you wish to walk along, what you left behind won't even matter."

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"Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!"

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"It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics."

Science

"Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?"

Thought

"Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility."

Winning

"But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience."

Experience

"If the second dinosaur to the left of the tall cycad tree had not happened to sneeze and thereby fail to catch the tiny, shrew-like ancestor of all the mammals, we should none of us be here."

Science

Religion

"The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing."

Philosophy

"More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding."

Religion

"People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design."

Philosophy

"What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?"

Philosophy

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"I [Jacob Hunt, Aspie] see it as the next step of evolution: I cannot take away your sadness, so why should I acknowledge it?"

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Personal Development

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Personal Development

"Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution."

Author Name

Personal Development

"We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and what-ifs and talk about things that are not present."

Author Name

Personal Development

"The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance."

Author Name

Personal Development

"What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Homosexuality is neither a sin, nor an anomaly or a disease. It is an evolutionary variation."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species."

Author Name

Personal Development

Author Name

Personal Development

"Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!"

Author Name

Personal Development