"What would be the use of a neuroscience that cannot tell us anything about love?"

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Source : John Zachary Young (1978). “Programs of the Brain”, Oxford University Press, USA

John Zachary Young

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“There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it. A simple stroll in the hallway calls for paragraphs, sentences in your head, decisions galore.”
“In hell, all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you.”
“Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.”
“Nobody else can give you a clean heart but God.”
“Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.”
“I am quite reactionary about Aussies travelling. Why, we've only been here a hundred years. What can be added by going before we are here? - that is not right but for we are here, but only just here. If we don't hold what we have we may never find it again, so delicate a thing it is, yet it gives the appearance of being overpowerful on close examination... I don't think a change of location can answer our questions.”
“The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in earthly-mindedness, envenomed with malice, exalted in an opinion of thine own righteousness, leavened with hypocrisy and carnal ends in God's service.”

Source : Joseph Alleine (1824). “An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners”, p.170

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