Biology Quote by Timothy Leary

We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain.

— Norman Doidge

Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

— Terence McKenna

A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.

— James Hollis

“Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex.”

— Carl Sagan

The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex.

— Arthur Koestler

Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what is forever…

— James Hollis

The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“The human brain is a cultural artifact. We don't load culture into a virgin brain like software loading into a computer; rather, culture helps…

— Lisa Feldman Barrett

We are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, we are composed only…

— David Eagleman

“culture comes into play at precisely the point where biological individuals become subjects, and that what lies between the two is not some automatically…

— Stuart Hall

For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable…

— Anonymous

Culture means control over nature.

— Johan Huizinga