System Quotes
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.
Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine.
Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment, it is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego. It also strengthens the immune system and the body’s ability to heal itself.
There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system.
Islam is more than a religion, it's much more than a religion, it's a way of life, it is a one party political system that has a very elaborate legal system that can put you to death if you leave it.
JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military.
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented.
The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.
Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.
Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.
You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.
The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.
Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.
The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.
When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how.
I have read many studies out of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and they demonstrated that Vitamin E, Co-Q-10, and Fish Oil could protect the immune system of athletes and prevent disease.
I think the American legal system sucks worse than a Celine Dion cover version of Whole Lotta Love.
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.
By creating an artificial environment, we're not stimulating our immune system enough. Germs are immune-stimulants. They challenge you to be prepared.
I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach the mystery of the mind.
If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.
If I should have a daughter… I’m gonna paint the solar system on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say ‘oh I know that like the back of my hand.
The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.
It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.
The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.
I found in direct selling companies an education system designed to draw out the rich person in you.
Like so many other positive acts, it turns out that hugging boosts our immune system. Plus it just plain feels good! So hug someone today, perhaps a person who seems particularly in need.
The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of freeze response.
The problem with our education system is not that parents do not have a choice. The problem is that inequities continue to exist.
The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.
You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.