Animal kingdom Quote by Yuval Noah Harari Download Open image ““giant brains so rare in the animal kingdom?”” — Yuval Noah Harari ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Animal kingdom Animals
“I don't think it's much use your looking for the brains: a creature who twice walked into a lions den can't have got any.” — Aesop Copy Share Image
“I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such small things as flowers came near to killing me, and such small animals… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“I appreciated that all animals have some form of mental life that reflects the architecture of their nervous system.” — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“People think that it is strange to have a turtle ten thousand miles long and an elephant more than two thousand miles tall, which… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Nothing demonstrates this more than man's intelligence: it has a capacity far beyond what would have been necessary in animal terms.” — Aharon Feldman Copy Share Image
“Already, the brain consumed more than a quarter of the body's blood supply... an organ accounting for only a small percentage of body mass. If brains grew larger, and better, then perhaps they would consume more - perhaps so much that, like an infection, they would overrun their hosts and kill the bodies that transported them. Or perhaps, in their… — Michael Crichton Copy Share
“A large brain-to-body size ratio is often considered a hallmark of intelligence, although it’s not the only factor. But it is something we humans celebrate in ourselves and regard as key to the flowering of human intelligence. So it’s easy to imagine scientists’ eyebrows arching in surprise when dolphins—and not chimpanzees—were discovered in the 1950s and 1960s to have a… — Virginia Morell Copy Share
“And their brains? Decreased total brain size, gray matter, white matter, frontal cortical metabolism, connectivity between regions, sizes of individual brain regions. Except for… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“For similar reasons, archaic humans did not initiate any revolutions. As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention of new… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Today the main source of wealth is knowledge. And whereas you can conquer oil fields through war, you cannot acquire knowledge that way.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food. The advent of cooking enabled… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas liberalism merged with the milder versions of nationalism to protect the unique experiences of each human community, evolutionary humanists such as Hitler identified particular nations as the engines of human progress, and concluded that these nations ought to bludgeon or even exterminate anyone standing in their way. It should be remembered, though, that Hitler and the Nazis represent only… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Corporations, money and nations exist only in our imagination. We invented them to serve us; why do we find ourselves sacrificing our lives in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Small children in affluent societies often dislike showering, and it takes them years of education and parental discipline to adopt this supposedly attractive custom.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Ever more scholars see cultures as a kind of mental infection or parasite, with humans as its unwitting host. Organic parasites, such as viruses, live inside the body of their hosts. They multiply and spread from one host to the other, feeding off their hosts, weakening them, and sometimes even killing them. As long as the hosts live long enough… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Soviet Communism was a fanatical and missionary religion. A devout Communist could not be a Christian or a Buddhist, and was expected to spread… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which we assign for the variations in other functions, viz. difference of organization; and that the superiority of man in rational endowments is not greater than the more exquisite, complicated, and perfectly developed structure of his… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet Copy Share
“Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“[Materialism] seeks the primary and most simple state of matter, and then tries to develop all the others from it; ascending from mere mechanism, to chemism, to polarity, to the vegetable and to the animal kingdom. And if we suppose this to have been done, the last link in the chain would be animal sensibility - that is knowledge -… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
I placed myself in amongst the animal kingdom so that I would be able to confront myself actually. It did not start out as… — Timothy Treadwell Copy Share Image
The logical outcome of evolution is that it makes monsters. We turn into monsters because evolution takes away everything that makes us human in… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
The progress of dynamic ideals will not be eternally blocked. Through general, moral and intellectual advancement... shall the latent aspiration of justice for the… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
I am still passionate about Grizzly bears as well as the rest of the animal kingdom and I understand now how precious people are… — Timothy Treadwell Copy Share Image
Expedition EVEREST adds a new dimension to our storytelling in Disney's Animal Kingdom. It's a thrilling adventure themed to the folklore of the mysterious… — Joe Rohde Copy Share Image
“If we put aside the self-awareness standard -- and really, how arbitrary and arrogant is that, to take the attribute of consciousness we happen to possess over all creatures and set it atop the hierarchy, proclaiming it the very definition of consciousness (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg wrote something wise in his notebooks, to the effect of: only a man can draw a self-portrait,… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share
“We can always be human Meeting each day a wise new man But the Animal Kingdom to which we belong Animals we are; this… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
