Contention Quote by Ludwig von Bertalanffy

“Don’t call humans rats—rats are superior.”

— Christina Stead

“At least descriptive psychology is probably, taken as a whole, a form of anthropomorphism, a nibbling at our own limits.”

— Franz Kafka

Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.

— Kate DiCamillo

“One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance…

— Oscar Wilde

It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc. All human faculties consist of an…

— Alfred Korzybski

When we talk about the brain, it is anything but unidimensional or simplistic or reductionistic.

— Thomas R. Insel

“Another reptilian brain disguised as a modest mouse in the rat race.”

— Alexander Akyna

“That whereby man differs from the lower animals is but small. Most people throw it away; only”

— Will Durant

Some people are averse to competition and allow the words 'co-operation' and 'humanism' to drool from their mouths, apparently meaning thereby a large blob…

— Laurance Labadie

Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower"…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences…

— B. F. Skinner

“Mouse-brained fool”

— Erin Hunter