"When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a sweet taste. The sweetness resides neither in the C, nor in the O, nor in the H; it resides in the pattern that emerges from their interaction. It is an emergent property. Moreover, strictly speaking, is not a property of the chemical bonds. It is a sensory experience that arises when the sugar molecules interact with the chemistry of our taste buds, which in turns causes a set of neurons to fire in a certain way. The experience of sweetness emerges from that neural activity."

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Source : David Diamond, Fritjof Capra (2007). “Theatre for Living: The Art and Science of Community-based Dialogue”, p.169, Trafford Publishing

Fritjof Capra

#Sweet Quotes #Oxygen Quotes #Fire Quotes

“Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.”
“I want to be one of the best ever. It's important to me. Why can't I be? Who's faster than me? Not many. Who has the size and can move like me? Not many. Catch passes like me? Not many.”
“In every difficult situation there is a door to opportunity for which optimism is the only key.”
“I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.”

Source : Fitz-Greene Halleck (1848). “The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck: Now First Collected. Illustrated with Steel Engravings, from Drawings by American Artists”, p.64
“Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by itâ€™s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.”
“Genius can never despise labour.”

Source : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”
“Our internationalism is the driver of our nationalism.”
“In life, be a participant, not a spectator.”

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