Biology Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“Doubting free will is not just a philosophical exercise. It has practical implications. If organisms indeed lack free will, it implies we could manipulate…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“It is hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behavior is determined by physical law, so it seems that we are…

— Stephen Hawking

“Recent experiments in neuroscience support the view that it is our physical brain, following the known laws of science, that determines our actions, and…

— Stephen Hawking

“Despite our attachment to the notion of free will, most of us know that disorders of the brain can trump the best intentions of…

— Sam Harris

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

— Richard Dawkins

“We are trying to force the brain to do something that it has not been programed to do. The brain simply believes what you…

— Shad Helmstetter

From spending my decades thinking about behavior and the biological influences on it, I'm convinced by now free will is what we call the…

— Robert Sapolsky

As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a…

— Scott Westerfeld

I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli.

— Mario Bunge

Speaking of a future at most only decades away, an experimenter in intelligence control asserted, “I foresee a time when we shall have the…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.

— William James

“We have the free will to choose how we react to those stimuli every moment of our life and what we choose creates our…

— Thomas Vazhakunnathu