Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object.

“But I've always been a sucker for externals alone: the shape, the shine, what the surface suggests to my palm. So mechanically disinclined it's…

— Marisa de los Santos

I'm absolutely convinced that people cannot look and read at the same time. Not any more than you can kneel and jump at the…

— Peter Schjeldahl

Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised

— U.G. Krishnamurti

When the human body is put under exceptional strain, a range of dormant genes in the DNA are expressed and extraordinary physiological processes are…

— K. Anders Ericsson

A good deal of our politics is physiological.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.

— Wilhelm Wundt

The living cell almost always contains, locked in its interior, the visible or invisible products of its physiological activity or its nourishment.

— Albrecht Kossel

We are intelligent atoms. We are intelligent organic structures. We can change who we are. We can heal ourselves. With genetic engineering, we are…

— Frederick Lenz

Physiology, in its analysis of the physiological functions of the sense organs, must use the results of subjective observation of sensations; and psychology, in…

— Wilhelm Wundt

Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is…

— Bertrand Russell

The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes…

— Michael Merzenich

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very…

— Richard Owen

Perhaps the most significant thing a person can know about himself is to understand his own system of values. Almost every thing we do…

— Jacque Fresco

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which…

— Asa Gray

My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.

— Ivan Sechenov