John Zachary Young Quotes

• The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

  John Zachary Young

  Life, Men, Secret

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• There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity. Whoever creates new artistic conventions has found methods of interchange between people about matters which were incommunicable before. The capacity to do this has been the basis of the whole of human history.

  John Zachary Young

  People, Matter, Originality

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• The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at present foresee.

  John Zachary Young

  Powerful, Brain, May

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• A marine protozoan is an aqueous salty system in an aqueous salty medium, but a man is an aqueous salty system in a medium in which there is but little water and most of that poor in salts.

  John Zachary Young

  Marine, Science, Men

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• In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind the evidence that this organ contains in some recorded form the basis of one's whole conscious life. It contains the record of all our aims and ambitions and is essential for the experience of all pleasures and pains, all loves and hates.

  John Zachary Young

  Pain, Hate, Ambition

  John Zachary Young (1987). “Philosophy and the brain”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• What would be the use of a neuroscience that cannot tell us anything about love?

  John Zachary Young

  Love, Would Be, Use

  John Zachary Young (1978). “Programs of the Brain”, Oxford University Press, USA

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