Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Gad Saad - Page 2

When a political party denies scientific facts, then by all means, they should be called out on their anti-science stance.

Of all forms of diversity that should be celebrated on university campuses, none is more important than supporting, nurturing, and promoting intellectual diversity.

For humans, gift giving is a universal ritual laden with evolutionary implications.

The explanatory power of evolutionary psychology is limitless!

Everyone has the right to practice their religious beliefs in private but expect that people might publicly reject said beliefs.

A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork.

If you are of sound mind and body, many exciting and challenging adventures are within your reach irrespective of your age.

To the uninitiated, the Hasidim constitute a rather homogeneous sect of orthodox Jewry, but this is far from being true.

While it is true that all individuals are equal under the law, this hardly implies that they are created equal.

Atheists do not seek to violently impose their non-belief onto others. They simply reject all gods inherent to the 10,000 religions known to mankind.

As a professor of marketing, I have a professional interest in examining how companies create integrated messages when communicating a corporate image.

If one wishes to forgo the protection afforded by secular pluralism, then perhaps Western liberal democracies is not the right place for you to freely exercise your religion.

Freedom of religion does not entitle your religion to have a privileged position within the public sphere.

In the public realm, secularism should not concede a single inch to religious intrusions. To argue otherwise is to violate the meaning of secularism.

Evolutionary psychology offers a parsimonious framework for understanding which domains are likely to yield sex differences and, if so, in which direction.

University students should rightly be exposed to a plurality of viewpoints as part of their intellectual growth, rather attending the 'flock of sheep association of like-minded individuals.'

As an academic, I value the free exchange of ideas.

The right to be able to speak openly and confidentially to another is, at times, codified legally if not ethically.

Trigger warnings are an instantiation of the West's zeitgeist of perpetual offense and victimhood that defines much of public discourse.

If any syllable that I utter might be interpreted in 13,000 different ways, then the best way for me to never be tarred and feathered is to never open my mouth. So the next time that someone calls on me for an opinion, you know what? I won't say a thing.

There are justifiable case-by-case situations wherein an educator might exhibit targeted sensitivity to a student's unique circumstances. This is humane and laudable. In most instances though, trigger warnings are not a manifestation of justified empathy but are symptomatic of an ailing culture.

Any clear-thinking person should be able to engage in nuanced thinking when it comes to complex political positions.

Notwithstanding the supposed egalitarian ethos of some hunter-gatherer societies, humans are a hierarchical social species. We care greatly about where we stand in comparison to some relevant reference group.

Western societies in general and universities in particular have not always been immune from institutional sexism. This is incontestable.

Across disparate cultures that require physical risk-taking as a rite of passage, it is always the men who engage in such pursuits.

The Christmas-New Year's holiday season can be a double-edge sword when it comes to one's mental health.

While I do not have a sweet tooth, I am a fan of the dark chocolate ice cream at Baskin Robbins.

Early in my doctoral training at Cornell University, I became immersed in the behavioral decision theory paradigm.

The contents of an ideology are not sacrosanct simply because they are couched in the cloak of a religion.

Regrettably, many religious traditions exacerbate our innate proclivity to divide the world into two clearly demarcated camps, and in doing so, this fans the flames of intolerance and hate.

Bottom line - cosmetics are used to accentuate an existing sex difference in facial contrast. This does not mean that women engage in this beautification practice with knowledge of this sexual dimorphism.

It is perfectly acceptable in a free and liberal society to criticize, debate, mock, and reject any ideology.

Reason and science allow us to properly think about the necessary data that are required in order to answer a given question. This is precisely why the scientific method is the most powerful framework for understanding the world.

Trigger warnings are part of the West's debauchery of self-indulgent victimhood.

There are many benefits to having interesting friends on Facebook. In my case, given that fellow academics constitute a sizable portion of my online friends, I am at times privy to shared studies that I might otherwise miss (or perhaps only identify at some future date).

In criticizing an ideology, one cannot be racist, hateful, or bigoted. These descriptors apply to positions held against people and not ideologies.

I am always on the lookout for new cafes to hang out at.

Unlike other animals, all of which are undoubtedly oblivious to their eventual demise, humans are fully aware that their time on Earth is limited. This is a reality that for most individuals is difficult if not impossible to bear.

The capacity for humans to come up with ever-increasingly granular in-group versus out-group demarcations is truly breathtaking.

Casting judgments is an integral feature of what makes us human.

In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst in reality it is a mere exercise in obscurantism

Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we all have the capacity to treasure life and enrich the world in incalculable ways.

...These politically correct language initiatives are misguided and harmful. They create highly entitled professional "victims" who expect to be free from any offense, and they engender a stifling atmosphere where all individuals walk on eggshells lest they might commit a linguistic capital crime.