1976 in History

Bob Marley

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

Bob Marley (Positive Vibration, 1976)

Just can't live that negative way...make way for the positive day!

Bob Marley (Positive Vibration, 1976)

The people who are trying to make this world worse aren’t taking a day off. How can I?

Bob Marley (After performing his consert and two days after being shot, 1976)

Og Mandino

My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action. I will act now!

Og Mandino (The Greatest Gift in the World, 1976)

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

Og Mandino (The Greatest Gift in the World, 1976)

Richard Dawkins

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.

Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene, 1976)

Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the cards themselves survive the shuffling. The cards are the genes. The genes are not destroyed by crossing-over, they merely change partners and march on. Of course they march on. That is their business. They are the replicators and we are their survival machines. When we have served our purpose we are cast aside. But genes are denizens of geological time: genes are forever.

Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene, 1976)

No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts from scratch.

Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene, 1976)

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.

Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene, 1976)

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have a chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.

Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene, 1976)

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene, 1976)

Ursula K. Le Guin

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

Ursula K. Le Guin (Very Far Away from Anything Else, 1976)

True myth may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is.

Ursula K. Le Guin (Myth and Archetype in Science Fiction, 1976)