Behavior Quote by Robert Sapolsky Download Open image “My roots, in college, were in behavior in the context of evolution.” — Robert Sapolsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Behavior Biology College Evolution Habits Roots
So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It's important to evolve without ever straying too far from your roots and what established you. — Jim Root Copy Share Image
“Universally accepted, microevolution has limits for what it can explain. These limits do not reach the center where the controversy lies - the Thesis… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior. — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature. — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child. — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
It would be really worrying if, as a Darwinian, it was impossible to think of ways in which our behavior could be explained. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You don't want to end up telling somebody who's homeless or a refugee that stress is all perceptual, because it sure isn't in those… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I think the relationship between social-dominance orientation in people and the extent to which they're made uncomfortable by ambiguity and novelty is really important.… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Depression is like the worst disease you can get. It's devastating. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Juvenile justice is probably the area that's most ripe for reform, in the nice liberal sense of the word, simply because there's no getting… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
When it comes to how neuroscience could help the wider public, the worst thing is when we make advances in, say, mindfulness, and then… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Literal cleanliness and orderliness can release us from abstract cognitive and affective distress - just consider how, during moments where life seems to be… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Words unconsciously shift thoughts and feelings. One person's 'terrorist' is another's 'freedom fighter'; politicians jockey to commandeer 'family values,' and somehow you can't favor… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I think you get to a time in life where by definition stuff's turning to quicksand and wherever you can get some solid footing… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Being president does seem a lot more stressful than being vice president. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
If a male primate is mean to a female primate, her whole family will come after him. We don't have that sort of accountability… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behaviour. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I now know that deep within the human concept is something dark, selfish, and completely willing to do whatever is necessary to support the… — Melissa West Copy Share Image
The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion… — Burne Hogarth Copy Share Image
You don't put milk in chamomile tea - that's disgusting behavior! That's not right. — Laura Fraser Copy Share Image
The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely,… — J. Willard Gibbs Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I think we've told a lot of lies about human behavior through film. — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior. — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
