Sharperson Dodgers Quotes & Sayings

Towards a Neurobiological Theory of Consciousness, one of the first synoptic articles to come out of his collaboration with Christof Koch at Caltech. I felt very privileged to see this manuscript, in particular their carefully laid-out argument that an ideal way of entering this seemingly inaccessible subject would be through exploring disorders of visual perception. Crick and Koch's paper was aimed at neuroscientists and covered a vast range in a few pages; it was sometimes dense and highly technical. But I knew that Crick could also write in a very accessible and witty and personable way; this was especially evident in his two earlier books, Life Itself and Of Molecules and Men. So I now entertained hopes that he might give a more popular and accessible form to his neurobiological theory of consciousness, enriched with clinical and everyday examples. — Oliver Sacks

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and 'superlive,' as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert in the present moment, the mind flings us into tawdry and tiresome elaborations of past and future. This craving to be otherwise, to be elsewhere, permeates the body, feeling, perceptions, will - consciousness itself. It is like the background radiation from the big bang of birth, the aftershock of having erupted into existence. — Stephen Batchelor

Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee. — James I Of Scotland

If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do ... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife. — Freddie Mercury

Anxiety is stemmed from worrying about the past and worrying about the future! — John Di Lemme

A woman never sees what we do for her, she only sees what we don't do. — Georges Courteline

Having people talk about you is an indication of how much more exciting your life is than theirs. — Jan Burke

Nature is a haunted house
but Art
is a house that tries to be haunted. — Emily Dickinson