Human Brain Evolution Quotes

#1. In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

Arthur Koestler

#2. From a certain angle, the spring seems so calm: warm, tender, each night redolent and composed. And yet everything radiates tension, as if the city has been built upon the skin of a balloon and someone is inflating it toward the breaking point.

Anonymous

#3. MacLean has shown that the R-complex plays an important role in aggressive behavior, territoriality, ritual and the establishment of social hierarchies. Despite occasional welcome exceptions, this seems to me to characterize a great deal of modern human bureaucratic and political behavior.

Carl Sagan

#4. I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and all that because of a certain kind of ambition. But I was always trying to create something simple.

Yoko Ono

#5. Those mothers with hereditary large pelvises were able to bear large-brained babies who because of their superior intelligence were able to compete successfully in adulthood with the smaller-brained offspring of mothers with smaller pelvises.

Carl Sagan

#6. The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,.

Howard Hughes

#7. The benches were magnificent. They could have been a hundred years old. They were made from solid mahogany,

Lee Child

#8. I sing 'All Apologies' with my own lyrics. People want to sing along, but then, oops, they realize it's a different story.

Nina Hagen

#9. The complex organic device that creates and thereafter drives consciousness, is the human brain. Consciousness evolved hand in hand with the evolution of the human brain throughout a time span of six million years.

Abhijit Naskar

#10. If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?

Virginia Woolf

#11. People believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance.

Mark Haddon

#12. When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.

Guy Forget

#13. Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences increasingly competent to deal with the laws of nature.

Carl Sagan

#14. It is very difficult to evolve by altering the deep fabric of life; any change there is likely to be lethal. But fundamental change can be accomplished by the addition of new systems on top of old ones.

Carl Sagan

#15. Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

Tom Robbins

#16. Man is not going to wait passively for millions of years before evolution offers him a better brain.

Corneliu E Giurgea

#17. There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.

Richard Dawkins

#18. I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

Kurt Vonnegut

#19. It's not a good idea to put fruit trees in parks," said a city official. "People throw it." Historic

Jared Farmer

#20. The two of us, we're the best kind of disaster. Apples and oranges. Well, more like apples and machetes.

Brittany Cavallaro

#21. Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions of its own genome and thus adapt to environmental pressures, physiologic changes, and experiences.

Philippa Perry

#22. Right hand on the steering wheel, left hand inside your panties, and your eyes, those beautiful fucking eyes - keep them on me the entire time.

Ella Frank

#23. Don't worry," Marya whispered, kissing his forehead. "My old bones will follow yours soon enough.

Catherynne M Valente

#24. Still when I go on talk shows, I worry that I have to live up to a comedic persona.

Charlie Day

#25. You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.

Henry Ford

#26. Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution

Steven Pinker

#27. It is interesting that it is not the getting of any sort of knowledge that God has forbidden, but, specifically, the knowledge of the difference between good and evil-that is, abstract and moral judgments, which, if they reside anywhere, reside in the neocortex.

Carl Sagan

#28. If the enemy stays spirited it is difficult to crush him.

Miyamoto Musashi

#29. But that's another error in the note," Klaus said. "It doesn't say unbearable, with a U. It says inbearable, with an I."
"You are being unbearable, with a U," Violet cried.
"And you are being stupid, with an S," Klaus snapped.

Lemony Snicket

#30. Perhaps the locale of the subjunctive mood will
one day be found. Will Latins turn out to be extravagantly endowed and English-speaking peoples significantly short-changed in this minor piece of brain anatomy?

Carl Sagan

#31. The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions, every human being acquires the intelligence of an Einstein, the imagination of a Shakespeare, and the subtlety of a Jesuit.

Michael Foley

#32. Most people don't wear glasses in the U.S., and we're not conditioned to finding men and women who wear glasses sexy. If you need your glasses to see, find a good optometrist who can outfit you with a great frame, thin lenses, and a high-quality anti-reflective coating.

Amy Webb

#33. I've always been fascinated with adrenaline; it's saved my life more than once, and it's caused me to need it to save my life more than once. One of the most fascinating responses in human evolution, adrenaline sharpens your brain; it sharpens your responses.

Craig Venter

#34. Some evidence suggests the left-handers are more likely to have problems with such left-hemisphere functions as reading, writing, speaking and arithmetic; and to be more adept at such right -hemisphere functions as imagination, pattern recognition and general creativity.

Carl Sagan