"The new way of thinking, spawned by the cognitive revolution, shows strong promise. Reversing previous doctrine in science, the new paradigm affirms that the world we live in is driven not solely by mindless physical forces but, more crucially, by subjective human values. Human values become the underlying key to world change."

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Source : "Science and the Problem of Values". Book by Roger Wolcott Sperry, 1972.

Roger Wolcott Sperry

#Strong Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Keys Quotes

“For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.”
“A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.”
“How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't-at least not in the moment. I don't think my mother was suggesting that we suppress discouragement or deny the reality of pain. I don't think she was suggesting that we smother unpleasant truths beneath a cloak of pretended happiness. But I do believe that the way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life.”
“Leonardo's Mona Lisa sure would have lost out if he had spent only 2 of the 4 or 5 years he took to complete it. It is thinking about him and Ryder, among others, that partly makes me feel so awful to send away a 'half-baked' painting.”
“I think it's important that campaigns be aired all the way through, that people aren't voting three weeks before, before debates are held.”
“Haven't you guessed by now? I say, my heart hammering. My home is you.”
“The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.”

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