"I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena"

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Source : "From autopoiesis to neurophenomenology: Francisco Varela's exploration of the biophysics of being" by D. Rudrauf, Biol Res 36: 27-65, 2003.

Francisco Varela

#Roots Quotes #Biologist Quotes

“Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.”

Source : Edmund Waller (1744). “Sammlung”, p.219
“Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.”
“Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.”
“Worship is an exercise of the Holy Spirit directed primarily to God”
“One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many possible worlds.”
“Don't avoid eye contact and don't be late”
“In short, it is the position of the people of the United States, as expressed by their representatives in Congress, that Israel's fight is our fight. And so shall it be until the last terrorist on earth is in a cell or a cemetery.”
“We do know for sure that good Irish Catholics followed their faith in the direction of inclusion, compassion, equality, justice, and a host of other Catholic values when they voted with the majority despite some clergymenâ€™s efforts to lead them astray.”

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