The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
The acknowledgment that God is always with us - even when we are least aware of it in our sensory being -… — Leanne Payne Copy Share Image
What happens behind your eyes is more important than what happens in front of them. This is a reversal from the way… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
One of the places where research is needed is all the sensory problems. And you get sensory problems not just with autism,… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Here is where I like to burst in as a writer, to take one strong sensory detail or image and instead of… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
[Television viewing] is a one-way transaction that requires the taking in of particular sensory material in a particular way, no matter what… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
As our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms of interaction.… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Somaaesthetics can be provisionally defined a the critical meliorative study of one's experience and use of one's body as a locus of… — Richard Shusterman Copy Share Image
As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry,… — John Walford Copy Share Image
“Sensory deprivation has a devastating psychological impact and can lead to the complete dissolution of the personality accompanied by hallucinations, delusional thinking… — Brian Moss Copy Share Image
There is only one essential difference between consciousness and dreaming, and that is sensory input. Your experience is a dream, so is… — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
Cognitive states of mind are seldom addictive, since they depend upon exploration of the world, and the individual encounter with the individual… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to… — Lynn Flewelling Copy Share Image
I studied a lot of animal behavior and one of the things I find really interesting is the whole idea that animals… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
I keep thinking of Robert Stone making the distinction between the word sublime and the word beautiful. He described being in a… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Awareness of your surroundings occurs only when sensory inputs violate expectations. When the world is successfully predicted away, awareness is not needed… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It's like being a newborn, this sudden sensory overload of noise, color, smells and gravity after months of quietly floating, encased in… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
The "How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others" essay was so hard to write because of the memories, the sensory stuff, but… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
“Space, time, and objects might just be aspects of a sensory desktop specific to Homo sapiens. They might not be deep insights… — John Brockman Copy Share Image
I know of several children and adults (with Asperger’s Syndrome) who have reported a considerable reduction in visual sensitivity and sensory overload… — Tony Attwood Copy Share Image
Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain's and the body's systems is inestimable. It's like a… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The same creative force that generated the universe created your body. It is vibrating with intelligence and spirit. It is ultimately sacred… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“You have 100,000 times more synapses in your brain than sensory receptors in your body. Therefore, you are roughly 100,000 times better… — Roy Williams Copy Share Image
You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
The man of Self-realization knows a bliss that cannot be compared to anything in this world. His joy is independent of any… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
... two men could be just alike in all their dispositions to verbal behavior under all possible sensory stimulations, and yet themeanings… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special… — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
I think the core criterion is the social awkwardness, but the sensory issues are a serious problem in many, many cases of… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Rich, smart parents tend to have rich, smart kids - not because it's genetic but because they can create a home environment… — George Kaiser Copy Share Image
Heads are a good deal, and I think they would be a common feature. It's hard to think of species that don't… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Physiology, in its analysis of the physiological functions of the sense organs, must use the results of subjective observation of sensations; and… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Fog rolled in like a form of sorrow. To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Meditators are shown to have thickening in parts of the brain structure that deal with attention, memory and sensory functions. This was… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
“Many people with Asperger syndrome can suffer from sensory overload – a feeling of being overwhelmed by bright lights, noise or crowds.… — Ruth Searle Copy Share Image