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American journalist and author (born 1957)

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Robert Wright is an American author and journalist known for his wide-ranging interests in philosophy, society, science, history, politics, international relations, and religion.

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One chronicler of Eskimo life has observed, "the best place for [an Eskimo] to store his surplus is in someone else's stomach.

Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000, p. 20.

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Robert Wright
said · 2009
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Maybe the growth of "God" signifies the existence of God.

The Evolution of God. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009, p. 286.

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Robert Wright is an American author and journalist known for his wide-ranging interests in philosophy, society, science, history, politics, international relations, and religion. He has published five books: Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information (1988), The Moral Animal (1994), Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (1999), The Evolution of God (2009), and Why Buddhism is True (2017). Wright has taught at Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania; more recently, in 2019 he was Visiting Professor of Science and Religion at Union Theological Seminary, New York.

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Born 1957 · age 69
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