"If the brain were so simple we could……" — Lyall Watson
"If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't."
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19 Quotes by Lyall Watson
Lyall Watson has 19 quotes on this site.
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If you simply walk on the beach as we are doing, you have no special color. But if you travel…
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Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or…
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If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they…
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I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting #…
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The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some…
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We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all…
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Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward…
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It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in…
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All I do is look, listen and try to make sense of what I find, in biological terms.
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Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a…
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Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense…
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Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.
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