Latest Greg Graffin Quotes from Interviews

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• There is so much in this world to be skeptical about if you want to be a skeptical a**hole. I'm kind of a skeptical a**hole. But not about vaccines, that's just not one of them.

  Greg Graffin

  Vaccines, World, Want

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• I'm a biologist, so... Which I think should be mandatory. Biology should be mandatory. Mathematics? They say we don't know enough about math and science. Well we don't know enough about science and particularly biology, which is such a huge field.

  Greg Graffin

  Math, Thinking, Fields

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• It's extremely hard to get rid of any population. When they say polio is essentially wiped out, it's not. If we let up on the vaccinations, it will make a come back.

  Greg Graffin

  Population, Polio, Hard

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• The problem is, as a company, if you attempt to streamline knowledge or try to limit information you get accused of censorship. So they have to open the gates to any a**hole's opinion. It's like 'oh that opinion is valid'. No, it's not. Not all opinions are valid, you know? It's this idea that every kid gets a trophy. Yeah, but someone won the game!

  Greg Graffin

  Kids, Games, Ideas

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• This era in human existence where so much information is out there, it's easy for someone like Donald Trump to use that to make his claim that information is fake news. And there are people who think 'I guess we should believe the President when he says it's fake news.'

  Greg Graffin

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• Knowledge is organized data. For it to be shelved as human knowledge it's got to be predictable, repeatable, all the basics of scientific validation have to be there.

  Greg Graffin

  Data, Validation, Basics

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• When we look back on this time and we are going to see what the Internet brought us, and social media brought us, I think people are going to say 'how did people know anything in those years, during that particular time in history?' Because there is so much disorganization in the information.

  Greg Graffin

  Thinking, Media, Years

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• It gives evolutionary biologists great status if they champion competition and the economists have to consult them. The economists have to consult the evolutionary biologists, because they are the ones who invented the idea of competition. It comes from the field of evolution.

  Greg Graffin

  Ideas, Giving, Competition

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• A lot of philosophy is bull***t, but a lot of it is what we write songs about too. And it's organizing your thoughts, organizing your intellect.

  Greg Graffin

  Song, Philosophy, Writing

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• There's going to be competition because there are not enough resources. Resources grow arithmetically, populations grow exponentially. You can't ever have enough resources and that's the foundation of this idea of competition.

  Greg Graffin

  Ideas, Competition, Foundation

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• Here's the thing, who cares what you have to look at, I'm a big advocate of not obscuring vistas, but even if you build the biggest wind farm, can it run anything more than a domestic washer and dryer and a computer, for the year? I'm sorry guys, the answer, you're going to be shocked to know: it ain't much more than that.

  Greg Graffin

  Running, Sorry, Wind Farms

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• There are certain ways you have to delude yourself. Self-delusion is important, for instance in family life. You know what I mean? If you're in love with your wife you have to go in there with blind faith. You have to support everything. And with your kids, you have to believe that you're doing something that has higher purpose; even though you don't have any evidence that that's the way it's going to turn out.

  Greg Graffin

  Believe, Love You, Mean

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• I usually am thinking about my next book the second I put the last dot on the previous one that I turn in.

  Greg Graffin

  Book, Thinking, Lasts

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Society has to be structured such that there are checks and balances, so that it can't be manipulated, for instance, for the profit of just some multinational company who's going to get rich on trying to legislate the environment.

  Greg Graffin

  Balance, Trying, Environment

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I believe in strong legislation for the environment. So the only question is being smart enough and educated enough to scrutinize the people who are writing the legislation, because there are plenty of ulterior motives out there.

  Greg Graffin

  Strong, Smart, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

• If you accept learning as a dominant determination of your behavior, then all of a sudden you're open to the idea that, for instance, there are other people who are more educated than you about the environment, who you will learn from. It's kind of like you don't even have to believe that you know anything about the environment, but you do have to understand that your behavior has been determined by learning in the past.

  Greg Graffin

  Determination, Believe, Past

  Source: www.avclub.com