Roisin Murphy

That idea of not always being in control of the primitive parts of yourself - the bits that fall in love or the bits that dance or lose the plot or drink too much - and putting that across... that's pop for me. It's playing with all the different colours of the rainbow of life.

Irish Musician

John Astin

We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.

American Actor

H. P. Lovecraft

The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by conventions and honour, but beyond a certain point, primitive will or desire cannot be curbed.

American Novelist

Anna Freud

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.

Austrian Psychologist

Herbert Read

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

English Poet

Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.

Indian Author

Varg Vikernes

Rock and roll promotes a primitive and destructive lifestyle. Metal can be seen as a subgenre of rock and roll, and thus, metal is not much better.

Norwegian Musician

Charles Lindbergh

We Americans are a primitive people... Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others.

American Aviator

Norman Mailer

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

Louis Leakey

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.

British Scientist

Think early steps in progress, like something not yet advanced.

Early Development

Refers to the most basic level of something, without extra features.

Simplicity

Used in academics to describe a fundamental concept that others are built upon.

Original Element

Describes something in an original state, not altered by external factors.

Unchanged State

Implies something natural has not been changed by humans.

Untouched Nature

Refers to societies before writing was developed or used.

Preliterate Societies

Talks about groups of people without advanced technology or industrialization.

Nonindustrial People

Use when referring to objects from the very distant past.

Timeless Artifacts

Mentions something belonging to the earliest historical periods, often used in museums.

Historical Context

Compares old ways to contemporary standards, often implying the need for update or change.

Modern Comparison

Can sometimes be used with a negative or derogatory connotation to criticize.

Judgmental Tone

 That fear of being seen as an awful idiot is a threat reaction from a primitive part of your brain that's very hard to control. It's the fight or flight response, a self-protective process seen in a range of animals, most of which don't give speeches. But we have a wise partner in the study of freaking out.

The science of stage...

 fully grown and neither are they hedgehogs although they seem to resemble them so closely they are a strange extremely primitive creature called a tenrec and they live nowhere else in the world but in madagascar the local people have superstitions and taboos connected with nearly all their

Sir David Attenborough...

 that they can form the abyss, that it's pregnant with being. They can call a world into existence out of nothing. But that's a very primitive view of what a physical law is, right? We know that physical laws are actually generalized descriptions of patterns and regularities

Why does the universe...

 in that first generation of stars, could fuse with hydrogen to form water, liquid water on the surface. On at least one, and maybe only one of those planets, primitive life evolved, which evolved over millions of years into things that walked upright and left footprints

CERN's supercollider PIPE...

 They postulate fundamental laws governing them, like the laws of gravity or of quantum mechanics. These fundamental properties and laws aren't explained in terms of anything more basic. Rather, they're taken as primitive, and you build up the world from there.

How do you explain...

 comparing their morphology to other early hominids we can see that we would place them right at the base of the lineage that leads to us we never seen a nonhuman that shares so many primitive and yet sometimes advanced characters

New Human Ancestor...

 The computer universe is both marvelous and primitive. It's a universe based on causality. As developers, we dream the different causes and then we program the different effects. Double click on an icon, that's a cause.

The dawn of the age of...

 The early life forms were primitive microbes with a basic set of genes for the basic tasks required to stay alive. They passed down those basic genes to their offspring through billions of generations.

Where do genes come...

 primitive life existed in the form of microbial organisms. They and the ensuing billions of years gave rise to a range of more advanced life forms that survived in Earth's seas, lands and skies.

Earth 101 PIPE National...

 traditional herbs and techniques that are ancestresses used to naturally afro hair somehow we've been persuaded that our culture is primitive and barbaric we are quickly losing the enriching

Primitive