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Francis Galton

"The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in that of human thought generally. Its effect was to demolish a multitude of dogmatic barriers by a single stroke, and to arouse a spirit of rebellion against all ancient authorities whose positive and unauthenticated statements were contradicted by modern science."

Source : Francis Galton (2015). “Memories of My Life”, p.211, Routledge

Francis Galton

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“The objective psychologist, hoping to get at the physiological side of behavior, is apt to plunge immediately into neurology trying to correlate brain activity with modes of experience ... The result in many cases only accentuates the gap between the total experience as studied by the psychologist and neural activity as analyzed by the neurologist.”

Source : Roger Wolcott Sperry, Colwyn B. Trevarthern (1990). “Brain Circuits and Functions of the Mind: Essays in Honor of Roger Wolcott Sperry, Author”, p.27, Cambridge University Press
“One of the quickest ways to a cat's brain is through its stomach.”
“I wanted to put reality in my photographs. Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. That's what was happening. And I was going to help make it happen. Boy, they did not want that in America.”
“Coral reefs are under assault. They are rapidly being degraded by human activities. They are over-fished, bombed and poisoned. They are smothered by sediment, and choked by algae growing on nutrient-rich sewage and fertilizer run-off. They are damaged by irresponsible tourism and are being severely stressed by the warming of the world's oceans. Each of these pressures is bad enough in itself, but together, the cocktail is proving lethal.”
“I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.”
“Let's replace "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you" with "Do unto others, after they show you they are worthy.”
“God opened my eyes to see Jesus for who He really was. After I trusted Christ, the Lord changed my entire perspective on everything. I started thinking about how I should relate to my parents and how I should approach school and even what it meant for the music I was writing.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“All things pass...Perhaps the passage of time is a kind of healing, or a kind of salvation granted equally to all people.”

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