Biology Quote by Gregory Stock

Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth…

— Stuart Sutherland

Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The…

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Consciousness is an emergent, contingent, and impermanent phenomenon. It has no magical capacity to break free from the field of events out of which…

— Stephen Batchelor

“Consciousness has evolved biologically and can therefore be explained biologically.”

— James David Lewis-Williams

...consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment.

— David Bohm

I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.

— Diane Ackerman

I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

— Edward Boyden

Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.

— Alva Noe

Many quantum physics are realizing or hypothesizing that consciousness is not a byproduct of evolution as has been suggested. Or for that matter, an…

— Deepak Chopra

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

— Roger Penrose

“Life as we know, and partially understand it, is a classical example of what can occur when a sufficient level of complexity is attained.…

— John D. Barrow