Brain Quote by Peter Watts Download Open image “Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.” — Peter Watts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brain Survival Truth
The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods. — Solomon Asch Copy Share Image
The experience of truth has to be felt on the central nervous system. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.... — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers.” — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“The Zodiac had rearranged itself into a precise grid of bright points with luminous tails. It was as though the whole planet had been… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“So much anger in here. So much hate. So much to take out on someone. This time it's going to count. She's adrift in… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“I brought her flowers one dusky Tuesday evening when the light was perfect. I pointed out the irony of that romantic old tradition— the… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Ludzie naprawdę nie walczą o odcień skóry czy ideologię – to tylko wygodne wskazówki do identyfikacji „swoich”. Wyszystko zawsze sprowadza się do więzów krwi… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“I know your race and mine are never on the best of terms." There was a cold smile in his voice if not on… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
down with ought with because with every brain that thinks it thinks nor dares to feel. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that… — Thomas Willis Copy Share Image
I prefer the word 'musician.' I'm a musician and a composer. I have a problem with the word 'artist.' I don't know if it's… — Stromae Copy Share Image
My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it takes a lot… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
Without illusions. I love you because you are fallible and because your poor misguided testosterone-corrupted brain has you doing cartwheels trying not to be.… — Cindy Gerard Copy Share Image
being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong… — Susan Boyle Copy Share Image
The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
