A Quote by Robert Sapolsky

The notion of humans as inherently rational beings has been not only trashed in economics, but trashed in all the best research on moral decision-making.

Robert Sapolsky

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Robert Sapolsky
American - Scientist
Born: April 6, 1957

Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.

Scott Westerfeld

It's hard for me to believe that the KKK still exists, especially knowing all my ancestors have been through. I feel like the history and meaning of all we have been through has been trashed.

Normani Kordei

Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively.

Evan Davis

I have trashed the to-do list. To help my brain...

Brigid Schulte

We never left a set until we'd trashed it.

Uma Thurman

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.

Sean Connery

Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line between commercials and programs has been trashed.

Tom Shales

My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into the fields of political science, economics, cognitive psychology, computer science and philosophy of science, among others.

Herbert A. Simon

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

F. Murray Abraham

As a foreigner, I used to think all of Michigan was a post-apocalyptic wasteland of burning buildings, trashed cars, abandoned factories and broken dreams. But now I know that's just Detroit. It's only the Democrat-controlled areas that are a disaster.

Milo Yiannopoulos

Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist - how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!

Bill Watterson

If my boyfriend was kicking me out of our house, I wouldn't leave peacefully and leave a note. I would have trashed the place. It would have been a lot more traumatic.

Julia Fox

I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesn't get trashed.

John C. Malone

I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls.

J. K. Rowling

I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesnt get trashed.

John C. Malone

Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics. That's a dangerous slope, because the problem of course is you're not undermining just that, you're undermining the basis of rational decision-making in society.

Brian Cox

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