Quotes About Instinct

Such cases deserve attention since they show that apes do not have to be prompted by experimental conditions concocted by us humans to plan for the future. They do so of their own accord.

ethology's focus was on behavior that develops naturally in all members of a given species.

One can take the ape out of the jungle, but not the jungle out of the ape.

In the same way that humans have a "handy" intelligence, which we share with other primates, elephants may have a "trunky" one. There

Lo que interpretamos como un sentimiento de culpa en las personas a menudo es, igual que en los perros, una manera de evitar consecuencias negativas, más que la evidencia de una distinción profunda entre lo correcto y lo incorrecto.

The subject of gambling is all encompassing. It combines man's natural play instinct with his desire to know about his fate and his future.

Every instinct warned me that from this hour my strength must wane, till dawn came like a fire to burn away my life—unless before dawn I had found rest.

Whether or not I am a writer," I wrote, "I have—and this is both my curse and my virtue—cultivated the instinct of one, an aversion for the herd, without, in my unhappy case, the ability to harness and articulate that aversion.

Moonlight turns even the most civilised man into a primitive.

El claro de luna convierte al hombre más civilizado en un primitivo

I could kill that guy and eat it afterwards...

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

Man is the cruelest animal.

Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs.

Notons qu'un soi-disant "sociobiologiste"-- ce mot est tout un programme -- a poussé l'ingéniosité jusqu'à remplacer la matière par des "gênes" dont l'égoïsme aveugle, combiné avec un instinct de fourmis ou d'abeilles, aurait fini par constituer non seulement les corps mais aussi la conscience et en fin de compte l'intelligence humaine, miraculeusement capable de disserter sur les gênes qui se sont amusés à la produire.

As the animal trundled toward him, Seth backed away. Weren't animals supposed to flee from humans? Maybe it had rabies. Or maybe it just hadn't seen him. After all, he was wearing a camouflage shirt.

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

You talk about hunger and pain as if they are forces which can't be resisted. Anything is acceptable, as long as the hunger made you do it-remove our comforts, and we become animals.

What else will we do?" I asked, turning to leave. "This is the only plan we have." "This isn't a plan," Prof said. "It's hormones.

You have a plan?" she asked. "There isn't much time for a plan. This is more of a hunch with scaffolding.

There isn't much time for a plan. This is more of a hunch with scaffolding.

Enjoying danger sounds like an evolutionary problem," M-Bot said. "Shouldn't you find things fun when they're safe?" "Who knows?" I said. "I don't think evolution was trying to create me. I just kind of happened.