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.
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances, but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad ... Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people β eternal life.
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