Andrew Dominik Quotes

The true science and study of man is man.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

Human behavior is timeless.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution of specifically human patterns of behaviour.

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

Innately, there are qualities in human beings that are always repetitive. There are things like love and hate and jealousy that are just going to be there forever.

Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

I find humans tremendously interesting.

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.

We imagine that human nature doesn't change. We like to say that but I don't think it's true because we have, in the course of the centuries, altered ourselves.

I think those who object to my characterizing man as simple want somehow to retain a deep mystery at his core.

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.

The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

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

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

If we compare the present time with former ages, we find that the same tendencies and desires have at all times governed states and peoples.

The progress of evolution, from President Washington to President Grant, was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin.... Grant should have lived in a cave and worn skins.

If the ideas of any particular man are determined by his environment, then the ideas of humanity, in their historical development, are determined by the development of the social environment, by the history of social relationships.

What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?

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.