Abstraction Quote by Charles Lindbergh

“...[H]uman beings are neurologically ill-designed to be modern Americans. The human brain evolved over hundreds of thousands of years in an environment defined by…

— Michael Lewis

The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how…

— Robin Marantz Henig

One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take…

— Daniel Goldstein

“But we must not forget that all things in the world are connected with one another and depend on one another, and that we…

— Ernst Mach

“In the first of our conversations, you explained how different time was for you—how it’s an abstraction. Some hours glide past like birds, others…

— Douglas Sterling

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content,…

— Howard Gardner

“the brain evolved a built-in negativity bias. While this bias emerged in harsh settings very different from our own, it continues to operate inside…

— Rick Hanson

The mammalian brain evolved exquisite place memory because that was essential for survival. This is why squirrels have such a good memory for where…

— Daniel Levitin

“Our surmises regarding the subtle functions of neural processes within the brain are profoundly constrained by the fact that the brain did not evolve…

— David Abram

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has…

— Douglas Adams

Don't we introduce time as a means of becoming more evolved? The brain has evolved but is there evolution inwardly? Can the brain dominated…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as…

— John Green