Animal Quote by Joel Garreau

Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.

— Ambrose Bierce

I've always been interested in animal behavior, and I keep reading about it because it's so surprising all the time - so many things…

— Isabella Rossellini

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

— Shoshana Zuboff

The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of…

— C. S. Lewis

I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly…

— Charles Handy

Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.

— Charles Darwin

“The evolution of animal behavior does constitute a learning process, but it is learning by the species, not by the individual, and the fruits…

— Ray Kurzweil

Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent unpredictable since…

— Stephen Jay Gould

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

— Peter Singer

But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually.

— Richard Lewontin

Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most…

— Claude Bernard