Instincts Quote by Charles Darwin

“The point of the prey being paralysed rather than killed, by the way, is that they don't decay but are eaten alive and are…

— Richard Dawkins

“The topic of instincts is tough to dissect. But one can gain an understanding by observing the behaviour of animals.”

— Mitta Xinindlu

The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our instinctive apparatus consists of two parts- the one tending to further our own life and that of our descendants, the other tending to…

— Bertrand Russell

“I feel like the caterpillar that we think is making a choice when he eats or pupates but, in fact, is not. He's ruled…

— Poppy Adams

“The stronger must dominate and not mate with the weaker, which would signify the sacrifice of its own higher nature. Only the born weakling…

— Adolf Hitler

“Many species lack the ability to defy their own animal instincts and allow their intellect to prevail.”

— Ernest Cline

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

— Robert Breault

Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

— Albert Einstein

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within…

— Charles Darwin

“From Hellstrom’s Hive Manual. The significant evolutionary achievement of the insects, more than a hundred million years ago, was the reproductive neuter. This fixed…

— Frank Herbert

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.

— Isaac Newton