Famous quotes containing the words gibbon and/or behavior:
“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)
“Consciousness is cerebral celebrity—nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain typical and “symptomatic” effects—on memory, on the control of behavior and so forth.”
—Daniel Clement Dennett (b. 1942)