81 Quotes About Caves

  • Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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    Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.

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  • Author Neil deGrasse Tyson
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    The whole society has to recognize the importance of the value in embracing what science is going into the 21st Century. Otherwise, we might as well start packing and moving back into the cave right now, because that's where we'll end up.

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  • Author Dick Vitale
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    You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map.

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  • Author Swami Vivekananda
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    When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave; we shall remain where we were but we shall understand the whole thing. The same phenomena will remain but with a new meaning.

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  • Author Fred Ward
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    It's like a prehistoric reflex, you know, going out and getting the meat and bringing it back to the cave. You feel you're supposed to make it better, but more than likely she's asking you to tell her how you feel.

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  • Author H. G. Wells
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    Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

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  • Author Laura Williams
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    A lot of times we don't even know the caves are there, and we find out caves are on BLM land by the spelunking groups.

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  • Author Pete Wentz
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    I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt.

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