Robert E. Ornstein Quotes

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If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.

Robert E. Ornstein

Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.

Robert E. Ornstein

Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory of a heliocentric solar system; it should not pay attention to the equally preposterous notions of scientific creationism

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New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.

Robert E. Ornstein

We have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.

Robert E. Ornstein

We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them.

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Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head.

Robert E. Ornstein

Robert E. Ornstein

Robert E. Ornstein

Born: 1942

Died: December 20, 2018 (aged 76)

Bio: Robert Evan Ornstein was an American psychologist, researcher and author.

Known for:

The Psychology of Consciousness (1972)
The evolution of consciousness (1991)
Multimind (1986)
The amazing brain (1984)
Healthy pleasures (1989)

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