Ask Quote by Lynn Margulis Download Open image “All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.” — Lynn Margulis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ask Asks Compare Consciousness Ecology Environment Human Human consciousness Humans Nature of man Philosophy of Mind
We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species. — Amit Goswami Copy Share Image
The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness. — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
We're not good at noticing slow, steady changes in our environments, our senses are not very acute compared to those of many animals, and… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Finally, some scientists concede that consciousness is real and may actually have great moral and political value, but that it fulfils no biological function… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
For us, we are all very different, our languages are very different, and our societies are very different. But if we could extract ourselves… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
If consciousness is the ground of being rather than an epiphenomenon of physical processes, we may find that a basic question asked by modern… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
“We can get a sense of it, to be sure, though it will upgrade our ideas of "real" and "thing" to boot. Ecology shows… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent their lives building up. It hits some 30… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an organism. I… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“Possibly here in the Holocene, or just before ten or twenty thousand years ago, life hit a peek of diversity. Then we appeared. We… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.” — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth. — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
We are unconscious of most of our body's processes, thank goodness, because we'd screw it up if we weren't. The human body is so… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life? — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask. — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad. — T-Pain Copy Share Image
If you ask why I do what I do - I want to make a difference. I don't just want to maintain the status… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
Every morning when I pick up the newspaper and read about an earthquake in Japan or problems in European financial institutions, the first question… — Mary Schapiro Copy Share Image
I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
If you ask an actor what he'd prefer to act on, he'd probably say a tangible, real set, or even better, a real location… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
It turns out that this part of the brain is one of the first areas that's attacked by Alzheimer's disease. So we can now… — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
I prefer department stores. In boutiques, they come up and ask you if you need help. I can't get lost in the experience. — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
A lot of people ask: 'Will you play a psycho to really change your image and prove you can act?' But that's not what… — Zac Efron Copy Share Image
I'm not in the movie business anymore, and hardly any 70 year olds are. I always ask the producers: 'Are there no 70-year old… — Brian Dennehy Copy Share Image
