Robert M. Sapolsky Quotes About Compassion

Quotes about: Compassion

• I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Art, Nature, Pain

  Robert M. Sapolsky (2004). “Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated”, p.10, Macmillan

• Pulling a gun's trigger can be an appalling act. But if it is suicidal drawing fire to save someone, it has an utterly different meaning. Placing your hand on someone's arm can be an act of deep compassion or the first step of betrayal. The punch line? It's all about context, and the biology of context is vastly more complicated than the biology of the behavior itself.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Betrayal, Suicidal, Gun

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• Oxytocin is lauded for how it promotes warmth, generosity, social bonding, cooperation, trust, and compassion.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Compassion, Oxytocin, Generosity

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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