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Robert Alan Wright
(25 Jan 1957 - )
American writer who wrote The Moral Animal on the new science of evolutionary psychology, in which scientists use the theories of natural selection to understand human behaviour.
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Science Quotes by Robert Alan Wright (1 quote)
Think of it: zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these truths identical, and all logically incompatible with one another.
— Robert Alan Wright
The Moral Animall: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life (1994), 238.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
