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“The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.”

Long Lost Animal Party Achievement Intellectual Glory Artistic Paradise Association Disposition Stimulus Rushing Party Animal

Author:Susan Cain

“This became Delacroix 's theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a state of society so delicately balanced that at the least touch they would be crushed beneath an avalanche of pent-up animal forces.”

States Would Be Spirit Force Animal Results Achievement Library Theme Balanced Crushed Avalanches

Book:The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

Source: The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

“What I argue is that talk of knowledge plays an important role in theories within cognitive ethology. The idea is this. First, one sees cognitive ethologists arguing that we need to attribute propositional attitudes to some animals in order to explain the sophistication of their cognitive achievements.”

Needs Firsts Important Ideas Play Order Animal Attitude Roles Theory Achievement Arguing Attributes Cognitive Sophistication

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“The young of human beings compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of many of the lower animals, that even the powers needed for physical sustentation have to be acquired under tuition. How much more, then, is this the case with respect to all the technological, artistic, scientific, and moral achievements of humanity!”

Humans Young Humanity Human Beings Animal Moral Cases Needed Achievement Originals Artistic Compare Efficiency Technological Tuition

Book:Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

“It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.”

Should Real Use Animal Achievement Research University British Hiding Worthwhile Colleagues Boast

Author:Robert Winston

“There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.”

Men Mind Self Animal Progress Plans Sacrifice Development Achievement Confused Resolution Worldly Self Reliance Reliance Strengthening A Man Thinketh Without Sacrifice

Book:As a Man Thinketh

Source: As a Man Thinketh

“Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality”