Bird Quote by Richard Dawkins Download Open image “It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.” — Richard Dawkins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bird Birds Consciousness Mammals Most Philosophy of Mind Too
Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
I am willing to believe that my unobtainable sixty seconds within a sponge or a flatworm might not reveal any mental acuity that I… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies. — David Abram Copy Share Image
There is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It's very interesting to think about the distinction with mind, which I just made in very general terms, but it can be made more… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness. Only man seems to be endowed with this… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species. — Amit Goswami Copy Share Image
The consciousness of the animal begins to change when it interacts with a human who's gone beyond thinking. It's not only the animals assisting… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start… — Red Auerbach Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great… — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway,… — Patrick MacGill Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment,… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself,… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
