Quote by Robert M. Sapolsky Download Open image ““The insula activates when we eat a cockroach or imagine doing so.”” — Robert M. Sapolsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“We all live like cockroaches in the crevices of our imagination.” — Raymond Federman Copy Share Image
“...a quiet room with cockroaches peeping out like prunes from every corner...” — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“A cockroach stepped out from behind the ketchup, gave me a quick impassive once-over, decided that I was of the Brahmin faith, and walked… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“Whatever else the entity was, Young was starting to suspect it was also part cockroach.” — J. Fally Copy Share Image
“A cockroach can not attend the meeting of chicken and be offered innocent.” — peter adejimi Copy Share Image
“Most of us live our lives like toads, sitting perfectly still, under a plantain leaf. We are waiting for a fly to come our… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“You thought?" The landsknecht glanced at him piteously. "With what, I wonder? If you swallowed a cockroach with your soap, dolt, you'd have more… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
“Not that I knew just what an incubus actually looked like, but judging by the darkness that was sliding up the back of his… — Allison Pang Copy Share Image
“and the chewing and swallowing imbue me with an unadulterated sense of donkey delight.” — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
“Secure-attachment 7Rs show more generosity than average. Thus 7R has something to do with generosity—but its effect is entirely context dependent.” — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
But if you get chronically, psychosocially stressed, you're going to compromise your health. So, essentially, we've evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Finally, for the same criminal conviction, the more stereotypically Af-rican a black individual’s facial features, the longer the sentence.15 In contrast, juries view black… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“So testosterone does subtle things to behavior. Nonetheless, this doesn’t tell us much because everything can be interpreted every which way. Testosterone increases anxiety—you… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“pain makes aggressive people more aggressive, while doing the opposite to unaggressive individuals.” — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Thus, for our purposes, genes aren’t about inevitability. Instead they’re about context-dependent tendencies, propensities, potentials, and vulnerabilities. All embedded in the fabric of the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“If we accept that there will always be sides, it’s a nontrivial to-do list item to always be on the side of angels. Distrust… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“In other words, the more genomically complex the organism, the larger the percentage of the genome devoted to gene regulation by the environment.” — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“The subject of one experiment is a rat that receives mild electric shocks (roughly equivalent to the static shock you might get from scuffing… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“No brain region is an island, and the formation of circuits connecting far-flung brain regions is crucial—how else can the frontal cortex use its… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“We process emotionally salient information more rapidly and automatically, but with less accuracy. Frontal function—working memory, impulse control, executive decision making, risk assessment, and… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Most broadly, the PFC chooses between conflicting options—Coke or Pepsi; blurting out what you really think or restraining yourself; pulling the trigger or not.… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
