Sociobiologist Quotes & Sayings

[...] let us note that a so-called "Sociobiologist" - this word is a whole project by itself - pushed the ingeniosity to the point of replacing matter by "genes", whose egoist selfishness, combined with ant and bee instincts, would have managed to constitute not only bodies but also conscience and at the end, human intelligence, miraculously able to dissert on the genes that amusingly created it. — Frithjof Schuon

I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing. — Fran Lebowitz

The very same 'mystery' that veils the human person from the neurophysiologist veils human history from the Marxian determinist and human morality from the sociobiologist. — Roger Scruton

eyes cannot see what the mind does not know. — John Burley

Some live it, some wish they lived it, and some never know it's there. — Jason E. Hodges

In fact, public speaking anxiety may be primal and quintessentially human, not limited to those of us born with a high-reactive nervous system. One theory, based on the writings of the sociobiologist E.O. Wilson, holds that when our ancestors lived on the savannah, being watched intently meant only one thing: a wild animal was stalking us. And when we think we're about to be eaten, do we stand tall and hold forth confidently? No. We run. In other words, hundreds of thousands of years of evolution urge us to get the hell off the stage, where we can mistake the gaze of the spectators for the glint in a predator's eye. — Susan Cain

Nobody but yourself can tell you what to accept and what to reject. — Pema Chodron

Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before? — James Montgomery

Evelyn let Camilla, as the higher-status person, extend her had first, a Babsism she remembered. — Stephanie Clifford

He that is fallen cannot helpe him that is downe.
[He that is fallen cannot help him that is down.] — George Herbert

Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you commit — Miguel Ruiz

More than once Nynaeve had been shocked at her own cruelty, even while she was delighted at her inventiveness. — Robert Jordan

Sanchez has always heard he's a good cop, maybe even a decent man. The latter's more common than the former; power breeds abuse. — Elizabeth Bear