Animal instinct Quote by Ernest Cline

“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of…

— H.G. Wells

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

— Mitta Xinindlu

“No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may…

— Brian Herbert

“ALL ANIMALS ARE UNDER STRINGENT SELECTION PRESSURE TO BE AS STUPID AS THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH. —PETE RICHERSON AND ROBERT BOYD”

— Peter Watts

“Nothing demonstrates this more than man's intelligence: it has a capacity far beyond what would have been necessary in animal terms.”

— Aharon Feldman

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

— Jim Butcher

“Every species, except the human, chose immediate, short-range success by means of specialization. But specialization always leads into blind alleys. It is only by…

— Aldous Huxley

“There is no conception more fallacious than the sense of cosiness implied by "Mother Nature". Each species must strive to survive, and that it…

— John Wyndham

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to…

— Steven Spielberg

“No animal will accept the justice of being punished for following its instincts. (90)”

— JM Coetzee

“If you don't listen to your animal instincts, you are placing too much importance on knowledge thereby not being wise.”

— Karen Salmansohn

“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves with such…

— Aldous Huxley