Biology Quote by Linus Pauling

“To express this increasingly complex subject as succinctly as possible, the ancestors of our species developed the brain power to connect with other minds…

— Edward O. Wilson

This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has…

— Terence McKenna

“I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The information that comes from deep in…

— David Brooks

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.

— John Banville

I think civilization is going to get to a point where we suddenly become responsible, stewards of the whole evolutionary process. This requires domains…

— Jean Houston

“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are…

— Roger Scruton

“Civilization is the name we give to the interaction of human beings in a very creative way, when, as it were, a critical mass…

— Anonymous

As civilization grows more complex, it is simultaneously becoming increasingly interrelated. We are converging upon ourselves, and this is forcing us to relate.

— Anodea Judith

Now, humans have become a dominant force of planetary change and, thus, we may have entered an eon of post-biological evolution in which cognitive…

— David Grinspoon

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic,…

— Anthony Daniels

We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into…

— Terence McKenna

We seem to be trapped by a civilization that has accelerated many physical aspects of evolution but has forgotten that other vital part of…

— Sybil Leek