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

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.

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 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.

Religion without reason is like making love without love.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

I don't believe in hours and hours of meditation. The mind gets tired and starts to fold in on itself.

However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.

The best signing I ever made at Rangers was Walter Smith.

Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high.

I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.

When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny.

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.