Zitate von Richard Dawkins, Konrad Lorenz, David R. Pilbeam

David R. Pilbeam
* 1940 Professor fürAnthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Direktor am Peabody Museum, Cambridge, MA. –

Peabody Museum – Nicht verwechseln mit David Pilbeam, Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology, University of Leeds

"Take the theme of the film Planet of the Apes: if something happens to humans to remove them from the evolutionary stage, then other apes will become human because that is what evolution is striving for. Evolutionary biologists, in contrast, do not see the origin of any species as inevitable. Rather, they see it involving a long series of events, each depending on the other, and each unpredictable and unique."
"What makes us human?", S. 1, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution, S. 1-5;

Rezension.

Clinton Richard Dawkins
26.3.1941 Nairobi, Kenia; Zoologe, Evolutionsbiologe, Professor of Public Understanding of Science, University of Oxford

Doug: "... One of the misconceptions about evolution, that I know was a big point of Stephen Jay Gould's, was the concept of progress, and whether there is any such thing as progress. You make a good point in here that to an extent of course there is progress, it just isn't necessarily directed. We used to have just one-celled things, and then there were invertebrates, and now vertebrates.
Dawkins: "... The sense of progress that Gould objected to, I would of course agree; the idea that evolution was directed towards humans."

Doug Brown, Powells.com: "Richard Dawkins: The Biologist's Tale", 18.10. 2004

"I can see how the title The Selfish Gene could be misunderstood, especially by those philosophers, not here present, who prefer to read a book by title only, omitting the rather extensive footnote which is the book itself."

Richard Dawkins

"One of Richard's achievements has been to extend an enjoyment of science to layman like myself. Permission has been granted, no apologies necessary." ...
"None of us, I think, in the mid-'70s, when The Selfish Gene was published, would have thought we'd be devoting so much mental space now to confront religion. We thought that matter had long been closed."

Ian McEwan: "Science writing: Towards a literary tradition?" über Richard Dawkins

"We are extremely close cousins of other species. And yet we have grown light years away from them."
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution, S. xi;

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"And God said: »Let there be Dawkins,«" and there was Dawkins. And Dawkins was clever, angry, charming, petulant, eloquent, arrogant and cold of eye. And God looked at Dawkins, and saw that he was good; well, pretty good. And damned irritating as well."

Ron Ferguson: "What a lazy way to argue against God", The Herald, 19.1.2006

"I think that religion is a dangerous thing, because it teaches people that faith as opposed to evidence is a justifiable reason for believing something. And if you believe that it's a right to thing to say that something is true just because you believe it rather than because you've seen some evidence than that is a recipe for conflict and perhaps even murder. Because we've seen all over the world that people are prepared to kill for the sake of deeply held beliefs which are not substantiated by evidence."
Richard Dawkins 12.1.2006, Broadcast on Five Live: The eminent evolutionist talks to Simon Mayo about religion, faith and the damage he believes they cause in the world.

Talk online

"The most they will claim is that there is no evidence against, which is pathetically weak. There is no evidence against all sorts of things, but we don't waste our time believing in them."
In: Cornelia Dean: "Scientists Confront Taboo of Mixing Science and God", The New York Times, Beilage der SZ, 29.8.2005, S. 4

Konrad Lorenz
7.11. 1903 Wien – 27.2. 1989 Wien
Verhaltensforscher; erhielt 1973 (mit N.Tinbergen und K.von Frisch) den Nobelpreis für Physiologie oder Medizin.

"Kurz, wie ein ukrainisches Sprichwort so wunderschön sagt: »Wenn die Fahne fliegt, ist der Verstand in der Trompete!«"
Das sogenannte Böse. Wien: Borotha-Schoeler, 1976. S. 345

"Das fehlende Glied zwischen Affen und Mensch sind wir selbst."
Lorenz in einer Wiener Vorlesung;
zitiert nach Drewermann, Eugen. Die Spirale der Angst. Freiburg, 1992.