Quotes About Comparison

Species differ - but are often not very different. Only humans have human minds. But believing that only humans have minds is like believing that because only humans have human skeletons, only humans have skeletons.

We're obsessed with filling in the blank for a Mad Libs line that goes: _____ makes us human. Why? Scratch and sniff the what makes us human obsession and you get a strong whiff of something that could fit into that blank: our insecurity.

Brought before HCUA, Miller was chastised for the suggestion that Congressional investigations might have something in common with witch trials; he replied, "The comparison is inevitable, sir." Thomas was shortly afterwards thrown in jail for fraud.

Broca was quoted as saying, "I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.

But the brain does much more than just recollect it inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes, it generates abstractions. The simplest thought like the concept of the number one has an elaborate logical underpinning. The brain has its own language for testing the structure and consistency of the world.

Until fairly recently it was thought that humans had fortv-eight chromosomes in an ordinary somatic cell. We now know that the correct number is forty-six. Chimps apparently really do have forty-eight chromosomes, and in this case a viable cross of a chimpanzee and a human would in any event be rare.

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The book was better than the movie. For one thing, there was a lot more in it. And some of the pictures were awfully different from the movie.

Abby_Donovan: Heathcliff was a misogynistic asshole. MarkBaynard: Could you explain that to my Lit 101 class? I hate to see all those impressionable young females swoowing over him like he's Edward Cullen. Abby_Donovan: I've always been Team Jacob myself. And Team Mr Rochester.

Consider that women are better than men at remembering the location of objects. Thousands of men and women all over the world have taken a test of object memory, and women perform better, on average.

Enjoyment is more subjective than evaluation. Whether you prefer peaches to pears is a question of taste, which is not quite true of whether you think Dostoevsky a more accomplished novelist than John Grisham. Dostoevsky is better than Grisham in the sense that Tiger Woods is a better golfer than Lady Gaga.

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

Americans come out of the comparison rather better. They may overdo emotion, but they are not fearful of it. A surplus of feeling has rarely done as much damage as a deficiency of it.

To relate a Beethoven sonata to the testicles is hardly in the style of traditional aesthetics.

It's only some rice and beans Captain. It's not like I'm giving you Cara's hand in marriage. - Richard

Kahlan ambled toward the door. Well, my breasts aren't as large as yours Berdine. She slowed as she passed Raina. I think Raina's hands would fit mine better.

that girl has a temper. a very bad temper. and you don't? richard asked. not like hers.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.

She couldn't do any worse, but then, he couldn't do better. So maybe it balanced out.

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If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!

There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.