529 quotes found
“But the largest number of primate species--thirty-four--have a promiscuous system in which females routinely associate and copulate with multiple males.”
“Women take a much larger risk, evolutionarily speaking, when they have sex. Sex is also a much larger investment for women than it is for men. For this reason, women have emotional circuitry design...”
“As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so...”
“It is more important to find out the truth about oneself than to find out the truth about heaven and hell, or about many other things which are of less importance and are apart from oneself. Howeve...”
“People relates the process of evolution, as growth and success in the material world, rather in reality, the process of evolution, is all about, how you perceive life, with your understanding, in t...”
“So do not throw your pearls before swine, Instead in the sand go and draw your line.For this love you have is rare dear girl, A guide and blessing in the name of Estelle. I sat and woke to see it a...”
“Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.”
“the future belongs to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future.”
“Russell commented that the development of such gifted individuals (referring to polymaths) required a childhood period in which there was little or no pressure for conformity, a time in which the c...”
“The entire evolutionary record on our planet, particularly the record contained in fossil endocasts, illustrates a progressive tendency toward intelligence. There is nothing mysterious about this:s...”
“Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain.”
“The more I think I know I realize, the more that is left unknown and that's the best part.”
“Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword.”
“Saying of the ProphetInk and BloodThe ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.”
“Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them.”
“Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.”
“...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.”
“There are natural phases to all life and wherever you are in life, you are perfectly becoming.”
“They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.”
“The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.”
