Biology Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

— Arthur Koestler

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with…

— Arthur Koestler

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,.

— Howard Hughes

Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

— Jonas Salk

It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe

— Richard Dawkins

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and…

— George Bernard Shaw

The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done by our…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Man is still at the learning stage, and mankind is so arrogant to think that he's the highest form of evolution on earth. There's…

— Marilyn Manson

Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution

— Steven Pinker

It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one…

— Steven Pinker

I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the…

— Bernard Beckett