If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I…

“Everyone knew that at some point in history, early humans got access to a big supply of protein, which allowed their brains to expand…

— Christopher McDougall

In prehistoric times, Homo sapiens was deeply endangered. Early humans were less fleet of foot, with fewer natural weapons and less well-honed senses than…

— Robert Winston

Early humans, bursting with questions about Nature but with limited understanding of its dynamics, explained things in terms of supernatural persons and person-animals who…

— Ursula Goodenough

“Consider this!” Edmond declared. “It took early humans over a million years to progress from discovering fire to inventing the wheel. Then it took…

— Dan Brown

“Modern food manufacturers have overwhelmed grocery store shelves with foods that are nutrient poor, rotten, spoiled, dead, old, and contaminated with antibiotics, chemicals, and…

— Abel James

All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to painting and…

— Chris Martin

When we consider the close connection between science and industrial development on the one hand, and between literary and aesthetic cultivation and an aristocratic…

— John Dewey

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.

— Charles Francis Richter

There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us…

— Roy Lichtenstein

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can…

— Adrienne Rich

God hates the LUKEWARM GOSPEL OF HALF-TRUTHS that is now spreading over the Globe. This gospel says, 'Just believe in Jesus and you'll be…

— David Wilkerson

The thankful heart sees the best part of every situation. It sees problems and weaknesses as opportunities, struggles as refining tools, and sinners as…

— Francis Frangipane

Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path…

— Yehudi Menuhin

Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer…

— Jakob Nielsen