"If a rat is a good model for……" — Robert M. Sapolsky

"If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble."

— Robert M. Sapolsky

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20 Quotes by Robert M. Sapolsky

Robert M. Sapolsky has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping…
We're getting along so well; I trust you so much for this one second that I'm going to let you…
Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.
We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.
Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.
The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent…
Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side
Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.
Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's…
If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for…
Digestion is quickly shut down during stress…The parasympathetic nervous system, perfect for all that calm, vegetative physiology, normally mediates the…
Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths…

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I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream… — Neil Armstrong
If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret. — Eve Arnold
I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was,… — Darren Aronofsky
These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them. — Julian Assange
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see… — Diane Ackerman
I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic. — Dan Aykroyd
In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some… — Michelle Bachelet
Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs… — Michele Bachmann
I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people,… — Michele Bachmann

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