Ian Tattersall famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Behavior is ultimately the product of the brain, the most mysterious organ of them all.
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When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to keep up. When such change occurs, the quality of your adaptation to your old habitat is irrelevant, and any competitive advantage you might have had may be eliminated at a stroke.
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Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it.
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It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences.
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Perhaps we will one day be able at least to admit of a God possessing sufficient majesty and expansiveness to transcend the limits of our own imaginations and experience. But meanwhile, . . . we might do well to look upon the inadequacy of our concepts of God as the truest mirror of those limitations that define our condition.
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The alternative to extinction is stagnation, and stagnation is seldom a good thing.
-- Ian Tattersall
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Brains first and then Hard Work.
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All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain - and pretty much nothing else.
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When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.
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It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot
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Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.
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A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.
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The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior.
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I'm afraid that's inappropriate behavior for the schoolyard," Xavier teased. "I know my charm is hard to resist, but please tray and control yourself.
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Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.
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