Gad Saad Quotes

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

We live in this miraculous technological environment, and yet our human behaviour is still governed by basic impulses from prehistoric times.

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.

There's no map to human behaviour.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution.

Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.

There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?'

We are a complex species to observe.

I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.

Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our species.

I think that genetically we're programmed to battle each other.

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

I just love learning about the way people used to live their lives, and I think what also ties into that is psychology, because I like knowing why people do certain things.

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.

It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior.

You can find inspiration for man's behaviour wherever you look.

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.