What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“This sort of information gathering is precisely what we call play. And the important function of play is thus revealed: it permits… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Every nursing mother, in the midst of her little dependent brood, has far more right to whine, sulk or scold, as temperament… — Antoinette Brown Blackwell Copy Share Image
“Dartmouth College employs computer learning techniques in a very broad array of courses. For example, a student can gain a deep insight… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“if we don’t take action now, we’re choosing to stand by passively and watch as what passes for food today does nothing… — Deborah Kesten Copy Share Image
Humans arose ... as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The idea of specific populations predisposed to obesity is encapsulated in a notion now known as the thrifty gene—technically, the thrifty-genotype hypothesis—that… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“The morgue was the name the human workers gave to this room in the facility. They were careful not to utter it… — A.R. Merrydew Copy Share Image
Considering the 'Tomorrow People' are supposed to be the next step in human evolution, I think it's a fascinating idea that they… — Luke Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Did you know? There are three major milestones in human evolution. One, the discovery of fire; two, the invention of the wheel;… — Merlin Franco Copy Share Image
“You know why there is so-much power outage in the world? Because the humans are unaware of their own electricity, both metaphorically… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution. — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
“She stood panting as adrenalin fired up her muscles. Flipping open the safety catches on both of her laser pistols, she set… — A.R. Merrydew Copy Share Image
“recent discoveries that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional severely undercut the social scientists’ official view of the world because… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of… — Paul Berg Copy Share Image
Killing animals and eating meat have been significant components of human evolution that had a synergistic relationship with other key attributes that… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness. — Robert E. Ornstein Copy Share Image
Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that human evolution has been linked to meat in many fundamental ways. Our digestive tract is not one… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
“Snakes are the most widely dreamed about, most feared, most religiously significant creature in the world. A squiggle, they are believed to… — Bryan Christy Copy Share Image
