Years ago Quote by Rick Hanson

“Inside our skulls are fish, reptile and shrew brains, as well as the highest centers that allow us to integrate information in our unique…

— Ian Tattersall

We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. ……

— Murray Bookchin

Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Life, in short, just wants to be. But—and here’s an interesting point—for the most part it doesn’t want to be much. This is perhaps…

— Bill Bryson

The cell was the first invention of the animal kingdom, and all higher animals are and must be cellular in structure. Our tissues were…

— John M. Tyler

As work in neurosciences indicates, the acquisition of literacy necessitated a new circuit in our species' brain more than 6,000 years ago. That circuit…

— Maryanne Wolf

The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation from lower…

— Roderick Murchison

“our primate ancestors was the development of a larger cerebral cortex as well as the development of increased volume of gray-matter tissue in certain…

— Ray Kurzweil

Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin of the…

— Neil Shubin

In its evolution from a more primitive nervous system, the brain, as an organ with ten or more billion neurons and many more connections…

— Stanislaw Ulam

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from…

— Wilhelm Wundt

The brain is the first broadcasting station ever invented.

— Napoleon Hill