It never really occurred to me to believe in God.
Interpretation
David Attenborough reflects on his lack of belief in God, suggesting a life guided by reason over faith.
In this quote, David Attenborough expresses a personal revelation about his worldview, indicating that faith in a higher power was never a consideration for him. This points to a broader philosophical stance that values empirical understanding and natural explanations of the world, rather than reliance on religious beliefs.
In practice
In a discussion on personal beliefs, one might refer to Attenborough's standpoint as a way to illustrate the value of scientific understanding over faith.
I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.
I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.
There's a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside the eyes of human beings. Children and the elderly in tropical regions (usually the poorest) are the most widely affected. A painful, slow death is virtually certain. The worm can actually live in the host for 17 years before the host finally dies.
The fundamental issue is the moral issue.
It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.
Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
During Lent, let us find concrete ways to overcome our indifference.
But because we accept the sanctity of life, the responsibility that comes with freedom and the supreme sacrifice of Christ expressed so well in the hymn: 'When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died. My richest gain I count but loss and pour contempt on all my pride.'
Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.
Human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four dimensional - body, mind, heart, and spirit.
How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.