9 Quotes by Robert E. Ornstein

To keep your resolve, surround yourself with those who want you to succeed. The brain cannot do its job of protecting the body without contact with other people.

New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head.

If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.

Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.

Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory of a heliocentric solar system; it should not pay attention to the equally preposterous notions of scientific creationism.

We’re worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them.

We have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.