Robert Sapolsky Quotes

“Being healthy consists of having the same disease as everyone else.”

“Dopamine is not about the happiness of reward. It's about the happiness of pursuit of reward that has a decent chance of occurring.”

“I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.”

“I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.”

“If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.”

“If we were designed by engineers, as we consumed more, we'd desire less. But our frequent human tragedy is that the more we consume, the hungrier we get.

More and faster and stronger. What was an unexpected pleasure yesterday is what we feel entitled to today, and what won't be enough tomorrow.”

“Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.”

“We are constantly being shaped by seemingly irrelevant stimuli, subliminal information, and internal forces we don't know a thing about.”

“Willpower is more than just a metaphor; self-control is a finite resource.”