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“Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.”

Animal Brain Strange Narcissistic Egotistical

Author:Zoe Saldana

“The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.”

Way Mean Universe Animal Interesting Brain Impression Perceive Simplest Edited

Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“About the book of Job: If it were today, God might be asking "How does DNA carry traits? How are instincts passed on in animals? How does consciousness arise in the human body and brain, and what is consciousness? What is dark matter? How did the big bang happen? Why does the speed of light appear to be absolute? Is cold fusion possible? How do you program a TV remote control?”

“Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned and lifted and hefted. There were animals that had brains of respectable size, but they had no hands and that made all the difference.”

Humans Made Hands Felt Differences Human Beings Answers Animal Brain Curiosity Size Respectable

Book:Foundation's Edge

Source: Foundation's Edge

“It takes 16 lbs of grain to make 1 lb of beef. It takes 1 lb of grain to make 1 lb of bread. So, how many more plants are you eating if you eat a pound of beef? Secondly, I've harvested cabbages and pulled up carrots out of the ground and I've been in slaughter-houses and seen the animals have their brains bashed out with sledgehammers and their throats cut - the experiences are not comparable.”

Ifs House Animal Brain Cutting Eating Plant Bread Pounds Throat Grain Slaughter Beef Carrots Cabbage

Author:John Robbins

“Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.”

Mean Two Eye Opportunity Games Sports Hours Pleasure Animal Brain Moral Ought Taxes Tasks Worn Toil Relaxation Simplest Limbs Diversion Artisans Daily Tasks

Author:Horace Greeley

“The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.”

Men Feels Stills Animal Brain He Man Eating Empty Emptiness Urges Stomach Belly Gratification

Book:The Wisdom of Insecurity

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest than Frenchmen, and less manly, shy, and rough, than Englishmen. Their brains are finer and flimsier, their bodies less robust and vigorous than ours. We are the finer animals, and they the subtler spirits. Their intellectual tendency is to excitement and insanity, and ours to stagnation and stupidity.”

Source: Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters

“Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.”

Animal Brain Steps Worry Forever Progress Weapons Gains Atmosphere Rebellion Every Step Agitation

Book:Daniel O'Connell, the Irish Patriot

Source: Daniel O'Connell, the Irish Patriot

“As if to demonstrate, by a striking example, the impossibility of erecting any cerebral barrier between man and the apes, Nature has provided us, in the latter animals, with an almost complete series of gradations from brains little higher than that of a Rodent, to brains little lower than that of Man.”

Ifs Men Littles Animal Brain Example Higher Series Latter Barriers Impossibility Apes Cerebral Rodents

Book:Man's Place in Nature

Source: Man's Place in Nature

“A somewhat casual observer from outer space might well deduce that the course of evolution in this planet had produced a species of large four-wheeled bugs with detachable brains; peculiar animals which rested when they sent their brains away from them but performed in rather predictable manner when their brains were recalled.”

Wells Might Courses Space Animal Brain Four Planets Evolution Species Peculiar Observers Bugs Casual Predictable Outer Space

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“[Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were stored in those little brains, behind the stabbing beaks, the piercing eyes, now giving them this instinct to destroy mankind with all the deft precision of machines.”

Source: THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI, THE STORY OF AVIATION, THE SWIMMING POOL, KISS ME AGAIn, STRANGER, RIVETS, ADVENTURES IN TWO WORLDS, THE SILENT WORLD, SHORT STORIES OF DE MAUPASSANT

“Of course, when a poem is being born, the reasoning part of the brain throbs away at full throttle, but all the other areas are overlapping and interacting as well, the emotional, intuitive, animal areas.”

Wells Courses Born Animal Brain Emotional Areas Reasoning Intuitive Interacting Overlapping Throttle

Author:Michael Longley

“As a researcher at US Berkeley I used to go into the brains of small, little animals and study the way that brains were connected and how little did I know that one day that was going to be my future - exploring the universe of the brain and hold it in between my hands and look at cells migrating.”

Knows Way Looks Littles Hands Used Universe Animal Brain Study One Day Connected Cells Exploring My Future Researchers Berkeley

Author:Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

“We're physical objects, we think of ourselves as these kind of free-floating brains, but the brain is such a little part. It's way smaller than we like to think. We think we're these important human beings. We're not animals or anything. But what did we come out of? What are we made out of? We're made of the same stuff as out there.”

Thinking Way Humans Kind Littles Made Important Stuff Human Beings Animal Brain Objects Floating

Author:Melissa Holbrook Pierson

“The brain has a good error rate. But, the point is, you can function with that error rate. Animals do a lot of guesswork.”

Animal Brain Function Errors Rate Guesswork

Author:Usama Fayyad

“Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of that social arrangement.”

Humans Enough Social Animal Brain Groups Handle Complexity Arrangements Primates

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“We all have brains and we're all really smart people, but the underlying reality is that we're really just animals and sometimes animal instinct takes over your capability to really think things through.”

People Thinking Sometimes Reality Animal Brain Smart Instinct Over You Capability Smart People Really Smart Animal Instinct

Author:Cristian Machado

“At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin may have synergized the emergence of higher forms of psychic organization out of primitive protohuman animals. It can be seen as a kind of evolutionary enzyme, or evolutionary catalyst.”

Kind May Stills Form Song Language Animal Brain Vision Higher Activity Capacity Organization Primitive Psychics Triggers Dose Catalyst Emergence Enzymes Psilocybin

Author:Terence McKenna