The Human Instinct Quotes

“The creationist view of natural history has always struck me not only as wrong, but as deeply impoverished. Their image of an Earth formed instantaneously and then immediately populated with all the great diversity of life is static, inflexible, unchanging, and, frankly, boring.”
― Kenneth R. Miller, The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will

“We are living creatures, to be sure, one species among countless millions that have come and gone in our planet’s lifetime. But we are also uniquely the creatures of music and art, of poetry and laughter, of science, reason, and mathematics. We are the children of evolution in every sense, but we are children of the universe as well, and from that realization comes a new and exhilarating way to see our place among other living things and our home among the stars.”
― Kenneth R. Miller, The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will