Cognitive science Quote by Steven Pinker

“I appreciated that all animals have some form of mental life that reflects the architecture of their nervous system.”

— Oliver Sacks

“Most people have difficulty thinking of themselves as just another animal. They refuse to face the fact that 96% of what can be found…

— Anonymous

“In the world of the extended phenotype, ask not how an animal's behaviour benefits its genes; ask instead whose genes it is benefiting.”

— Richard Dawkins

“Many people think that the theory of the selfish gene says that “animals try to spread their genes.” That misstates the facts and it…

— Steven Pinker

“Meaney and colleagues, one of the most cited papers published in the prestigious journal Nature Neuroscience. They had shown previously that offspring of more…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Genes aren’t designed to make us happy. They design us to make more copies of themselves.”

— Joe Quirk

If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass…

— David Attenborough

“It is unsettling – and perhaps thrilling – to think that we Sapiens could at one time have sex with an animal from a…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The brain does much more than recollect. It compares, synthesizes, analyzes, generates abstractions. We must figure out much more than our genes can know.…

— Carl Sagan

I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you're…

— Jack Handey

What we share with animals is a desire for choice. It's a desire to have control over our life and a desire to live…

— Sheena Iyengar

Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

— David Abram