Believe Quote by Steven Pinker

“natural selection didn’t design your mind to see the world clearly; it designed your mind to have perceptions and beliefs that would help take…

— Robert Wright

The brain is the great factory of thought. To it are directed all the forces of nature, forces which, for thousands of years, have…

— Leonardo Bianchi

Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

— Daniel Dennett

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

— Leon Kass

It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe

— Richard Dawkins

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done by our…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the…

— Steven Pinker

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution

— Steven Pinker

“humans are born with brains structured to make sense of the world, and that often leads to beliefs that go beyond any natural explanation.”

— David DiSalvo

Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do…

— David Suzuki