understanding Quotes

You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.

It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding about ourselves.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.

As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.