Satoshi Kanazawa famous quotes

Humans are evolutionarily designed to be paranoid, and they believe in God because they are paranoid,
-- Satoshi Kanazawa

#Believe #Believe In God #Paranoid

If any value is deeply evolutionarily familiar, it is reproductive success. If any value is truly unnatural, if there is one thing that humans (and all other species in nature) are decisively not designed for, it is voluntary childlessness. All living organisms in nature, including humans, are evolutionarily designed to reproduce. Reproductive success is the ultimate end of all biological existence.
-- Satoshi Kanazawa

#Ends #Existence #Familiar

Proofs exist only in mathematics and logic, not in science.
-- Satoshi Kanazawa

#Logic #Mathematics #Proof

A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to increase a theory's fruitfulness.
-- Satoshi Kanazawa

#Order #Risk #Management

A 'multicultural society' is a logical and physical impossibility.
-- Satoshi Kanazawa

#Logical #Multicultural #Impossibility

I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.

The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.

I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you…

I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God

I believe in God, absolutely.

I don't believe in God, but the thing I do believe in is that we're all connected.