Animal Quote by Adrian McKinty

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

— Christopher Hitchens

Humans are pattern-seeking animals, consciously and subconsciously imposing designs and theories on to past events. We do this in both our private lives and…

— David Olusoga

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

— Michael Shermer

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.

— Michael Shermer

We are all cells of a much larger body, and like the cells of our own body it is hard for us to glimpse…

— Terence McKenna

Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about…

— Oscar Isaac

What makes us human is that we ask questions. All the animals have interests, instincts and conceptions. All the animals frame for themselves an…

— Roger Scruton

Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution.

— Richard Dawkins

One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.

— Chris Hondros

“reason the current gap between animal and human minds seems so large and so baffling, then, may be because we have destroyed the missing…

— Thomas Suddendorf

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it…

— Clifford Geertz

The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of…

— Stephen Jay Gould