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Temple Grandin Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“I don't like radical anything; left or right. I have a radical dislike of radicals.”
— Temple Grandin
Tagged: Radical, Thinking, Thoughts
“But my favorite of Einstein's words on religion is "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." I like this because both science and religion are needed to answer life's great questions.”
— Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
Tagged: einstein, Religion, Science, Spirituality, Belief, Life, Questions
“They may ask why nature or God created such horrible conditions as autism, manic depression, and schizophrenia. However, if the genes that caused these conditions were eliminated there might be a terrible price to pay.”
— Temple Grandin
Tagged: Nature, God, Autism, Depression, Schizoprenia
“The only place on earth where immortality is provided is in libraries. This is the collective memory of humanity.”
— Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
Tagged: Immortality, Life, Place, Earth, library, Collective Memory, humanity
“Tyrants who get into power make life miserable for everyone.”
— Temple Grandin, Developing Talents
Tagged: tyranny, Power, Authority, Abuse
“Nature is cruel but we don't have to be.”
— Temple Grandin, The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger's
Tagged: Nature, Cruelty, kindness
“Mother prepared me to live in the world, but she didn't try to make me into a social being just so I could hang out with other teenagers at the lake, or have pajama parties with other girls. Her eyes were on a bigger prize - giving me the skills and nurturing the talents that would allow me to graduate from school, attend college, find a satisfying job and live independently.”
— Temple Grandin, Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships: Decoding Social Mysteries Through the Unique Perspectives of Autism: New Edition with Author Updates
Tagged: Parenting, mother, Nurture, Independence, Motherhood
“In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive. After all, the really social people did not invent the first stone spear. It was probably invented by an Aspie who chipped away at rocks while the other people socialized around the campfire. Without autism traits we might still be living in caves.”
— Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
Tagged: Autism, Scientists, Traits, socialization
“And another reason to make sure we're not doing atrocious things at the slaughter plant is that if it is too easy to do something really atrocious to an animal; with the poor animal screaming and everything; the person who could do that might not have any problem torturing people. I remember one of the reasons that St. Thomas Aquinas said that we have to treat animals right is so that people themselves don't get corrupted.”
— Temple Grandin
Tagged: Atrocity, Slaughter, animal
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