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Robert Wright
3 quotes
“One chronicler of Eskimo life has observed, "the best place for [an Eskimo] to store his surplus is in someone else's stomach.”
Robert Wright (born 1957) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000, p. 20.
“Maybe the growth of "God" signifies the existence of God. That is: if history naturally pushes people toward moral improvement, toward moral growth, and their God, as they conceive their God, grows accordingly, becoming morally richer, then maybe this growth is evidence of some higher purpose, and maybe — conceivably — the source of that purpose is worthy of the name divinity.”
Robert Wright (born 1957) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Evolution of God. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009, p. 286.
“That biological evolution has an arrow -- the invention of more structurally and informationally complex forms of life -- and that this arrow points toward meaning, isn't, of course, proof of the existence of God. But it's more suggestive of divinity than an alternative world would: a world in which evolution had no direction, or a world with directional evolution but no consciousness. If more scientists appreciated the weirdness of consciousness -- understood that a world with sentience, hence without meaning, is exactly the world that a modern behavioral scientist should expect to exist -- then reality might inspire more awe than it does.”
Robert Wright (born 1957) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000, p. 323.