Animals Quote by Annie Dillard

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…

— Annie Dillard

Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest…

— Annie Dillard

Have you ever seen an animal make a mistake / probably will not see / mistakes just do human's, because they have mind

— Mak_786

“I appreciated that all animals have some form of mental life that reflects the architecture of their nervous system.”

— Oliver Sacks

The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.

— David Brooks

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals…

— J. M. Coetzee

“Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural…

— David Eagleman

I am willing to believe that my unobtainable sixty seconds within a sponge or a flatworm might not reveal any mental acuity that I…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“thus animals without symbolic language may lack the ability humans have to deliberately think about the past and imagine the future.”

— David Christian

“Earthborn animals do this thing, inside their brains—a sort of firing-off of synapses, controlled insanity. While they’re asleep. The part of their brain that…

— Orson Scott Card

“the brain is an astounding and mysterious organ...it has been analyzed and poked and sliced and diced yet nobody has ever seen a personality…

— Cameron Díaz

The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess.

— Susannah Cahalan