Biologist Quote by Francisco Varela Download Open image “I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena.” — Francisco Varela ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biologist Cognitive Has beens Roots
“Indeed, the underlying precept of the new science of mind is that all mental processes are biological—they all depend on organic molecules and cellular… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Now, humans have become a dominant force of planetary change and, thus, we may have entered an eon of post-biological evolution in which cognitive… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
“As a biologist, Piaget considered cognitive development to be part of a much more general tendency of living systems to grow, change, improve and… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
Cognition is ... not an individual process of any theoretical "particular conciousness." Rather it is the result of a social activity, since the existing… — Ludwik Fleck Copy Share Image
Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping a neurobiology of what… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws. — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
“We are biological beings, shaped by genetic inheritance and the organization and health of our neurological structures. We have rich inner lives of diverse dispositions, motivations, cognitive abilities and processes, intrapsychic dynamics, and reinforcement histories. We are also social creatures, affected by our social and cultural environments. Together these elements help us understand normal phenomena (like memory construction, neurological function,… — David N Entwistle Copy Share
I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed… — Ze Frank Copy Share Image
(The mind's) dynamics transcend the time and space of brain physiology. — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
Cognitive neuroscience is entering an exciting era in which new technologies and ideas are making it possible to study the neural basis of cognition,… — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
I think the most incredible fact about the brain is that it is the only piece of biological real estate that can actually study… — John Medina Copy Share Image
My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review the mechanisms… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
When a living system is suffering from ill health, the remedy is found by connecting with more of itself. — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
The relations that define a system as a unity, and determine the dynamics of interaction and transformations which it may undergo as such a… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ' holistic ' views as some sort of cure-all... Reductionism implies attention to a lower… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower of an… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
If everybody would agree that their current reality is A reality, and that what we essentially share is our capacity for constructing a reality,… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
[M]any people would accept that we do not really have knowledge of the world; we have knowledge only of our representations of the world.… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
All our suffering is associated with this pre-occupation. All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with this vague… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that philosophical biologist,… — George Trumbull Ladd Copy Share Image
Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I am of course getting angry if biologists try to use the general concept 'chance' in order to explain phenomena which are so typical… — Wolfgang Paul Copy Share Image
It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists; this proves a great deal about both parties concerned. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image