Shirley C. Strum > Quotes

“Science, it was clear, was complicated because its practitioners were human primates. Primates were not created as objective machines. Every primate, humans included, sees the world in a particular way – through primate eyes, ears, noses and hands, but, most importantly, through a primate brain that has a very special history, a brain that is extremely skillful at performing certain functions and extremely poor at performing others. It is a unique attribute of humans that at least some of them want to try and understand the world “as it really is” rather than being satisfied with seeing and comprehending it only to the extent that it serves some immediate and selfish purpose.”
― Shirley C. Strum, Almost Human a Journey Into the World Of