Birth Quote by E. O. Wilson

The actual organization of behavior goes on the level of the individual nerve cells and their connections, and we have a hundred billion nerve…

— Steven Pinker

Babies are born whole and then they go through experiences in life that chip away at some of that, and it becomes learned behavior.

— Ari Graynor

“As infants, we see the world in parts. There is the good—the things that feed and nourish us. There is the bad—the things that…

— Sherry Turkle

“Our brain is a circuit board with neurons and terminals ready to be wired. We are born free, then programmed to obey our parents,…

— Chloe Thurlow

Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a…

— Alison Gopnik

I believe babies are born as innovative personalities... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning.

— Jay Wright Forrester

One cannot evolve from one's robothood until one realizes how totally one has been robotized.

— Timothy Leary

There is this mythology that says that when people are born, their brains are essentially fixed very early on and they're not able to…

— Daniel Tammet

“Thus, adult behavior produces persistent molecular brain changes in offspring, “programming” them to be likely to replicate that distinctive behavior in adulthood.76”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Nobody in this world was born to be the same as anyone else. Turning people into robots, especially children, is a crime against nature…

— Jenna Miscavige Hill

“Everything a person is and everything he knows resides in the tangled thicket of his intertwined neurons. These fateful, tiny bridges number in the…

— Thomas Lewis

The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on…

— E. O. Wilson