Body Quote by Susan Blackmore

“Humans are often credited with having real foresight, in distinction to the rest of biology which does not. For example, Dawkins compares the 'blind…

— Susan J. Blackmore

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

Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life,…

— Michael Shermer

“Living organisms were not independently created, but have descended and diversified over time from common ancestors. And thus, no other biological theory so elegantly…

— Tommy Rodriguez

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

— Steven Pinker

The genetic you and the neural you aren't alternatives to the conscious you. They are its foundations.

— Paul Bloom

...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 brain was designed by evolution, so each part of it is optimized for what it does, and it's incredibly, incredibly complex.

— Paul Allen

“Our choices—the natural consequences of our thoughts and imagination—get “under the skin” of our DNA and can turn certain genes on and off, changing…

— Caroline Leaf

It’s true that the mind is where all ideas are born, but the body is the tool that translates and expresses those ideas to…

— Evanna Lynch

The better we understand the choices we have been making, either consciously or unconsciously, the more say we will have in the world we…

— Jill Bolte Taylor

“Thinking is computation, I claim, but that does not mean that the computer is a good metaphor for the mind. The mind is a…

— Steven Pinker