Confused Quote by Robert M. Sapolsky Download Open image “We are just another primate but a very confused, malleable one.” — Robert M. Sapolsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Confused Primates
Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Primates are super smart and organized just enough to devote their free time to being miserable to each other and stressing each other out. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing. — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright, walking, big brained, super intelligent ape. — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
I think we give human beings too much credit. We're primates, you know. — Eric Andre Copy Share Image
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
Primates are hardwired for us/them dichotomies. Our brains detect them in less than 100 milliseconds. — Robert Sapolsky 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
The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
I was a very protected and confused kid till 24. It was after then, that I started taking my life seriously. — Siddharth Shukla Copy Share Image
I can picture certain things in my mind, while writing the script, but then I can also tell that everyone else might be a… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
