Bruce Lipton Quotes

Because human nature evolved in an era before collective learning accelerated, we are all fitted to living in a world that does not change much after our formative years.

Through writing, Homo sapiens then became the first species to preserve learning, enabling knowledge to grow, ultimately at an exponential pace. Collective learning over time then became the source of technological improvement, a process that could move much faster than evolution.

Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we're enormously stimulated by problem solving and learning.

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival.

Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct.

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that it's good that it changed, otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence.

I've always maintained that I see myself as a student. There's always something to learn and be challenged by and hopefully grow from.

As an environmental scientist, I think our first need is to feed and shelter and nurture. That has always required the exploitation of plant life, and it always will.

Over the years, you get better at timing because you've been through the situations thousands of times. The ball goes over your head; he passes you on the right, left. Eventually, you just know what you have to do.

Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.

Intelligence is in constant process of forming, and its retention requires constant alertness in observing consequences, an open-minded will to learn, and courage in readjustment.

The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.

You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.

One of the things I benefited from when I started this business was that I didn't know anything. I was just instinct with no preconceived notions. This enabled me to learn and change quickly without having to worry about maintaining any kind of status quo, like some of my bigger competitors.

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.

All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.