A Quote by Marilynne Robinson

There was some sort of maze-learning experiment involved in my final grade and since I remember the rat who was my colleague as uncooperative, or perhaps merely incompetent at being a rat, or tired of the whole thing, I don't remember how I passed.

Marilynne Robinson

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Being Experiment Final Grade How Incompetent Involved Learning Maze Merely Passed Perhaps Rat Remember Since Some Sort Thing Tired Uncooperative Whole

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Marilynne Robinson
American - Novelist
Born: November 26, 1943

An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.

E. O. Wilson

People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.

Tamzin Merchant

Think of lab rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue' conducted on the teli. Each rat runs with a designated, neatly bifurcated (Republican or Democratic) political orthodoxy. Each is a 'maze-bright' rat, and not the possessor and giver of any truth.

Ilana Mercer

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

Richard Koch

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.

Margaret Atwood

Maybe playing around and having fun is considered being a rat... I guess I'm a rat.

Brad Marchand

Like my boy tells me; if it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, by golly, it is a rat.

Terrell Owens

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

Margaret Halsey

There's a lot in my closet. I've been collecting things since I was five. I'm definitely a pack rat. I'm not a hoarder, but I'm definitely a pack rat. I will keep anything if I have a memory in it or a good moment.