As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower of an experience that is separate from the experience itself.

The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence

When a living system is suffering from ill health, the remedy is found by connecting with more of itself.

The relations that define a system as a unity, and determine the dynamics of interaction and transformations which it may undergo as such a unity constitute the organization of the machine.

I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena.

That is the theme of the Million Mom March: 'I don't need a brain - I've got a womb'.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.

Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth.

Dance is such a stressful environment.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

Funny thing about faith ... it goes a lot faster than it comes.

Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.