Physiological Quotes

• I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in mechanism designed to cultivate empathy and compassion.

  Eric Whitacre

  Spiritual, Believe, Compassion

  FaceBook post by Eric Whitacre from Nov 20, 2012

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• Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love, People, Insanity

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• We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

  Oliver Lodge

  Communication, Character, Determined

  Sir Oliver Lodge (2016). “Raymond Or Life And Death”, p.80, Read Books Ltd

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• I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.

  Tony Abbott

  Thinking, Numbers, Different

  "The Authentic Mr Abbott". "Four Corners" with Liz Jackson, www.abc.net.au. March 03, 2010.

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• For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.

  Albert Claude

  Cells, Years, Two

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• If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging.

  Kenneth H. Cooper

  Age, Doe, Looks

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• Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Life, Hands, Psychology

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.

  Richard Owen

  Men, Study, Psychological

  "The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, vol. 111". Journal by Sydney Smith, Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, William Empson, Macvey Napier, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Henry Reeve, Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot (Hon.), Harold Cox, p. 521, 1860.

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• Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.

  Bertrand Russell

  Sex, Law, Feelings

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.71, Routledge

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• It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

  Northrop Frye

  Block, Emotional, Thinking

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.83, Princeton University Press

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• A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

  Roman Jakobson

  Photography, Eras, Rays

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• Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences...our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Differences, Judging, Making A Difference

  "A Latina Judge’s Voice". Sonia Sotomayor’s Speech at the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal’s Symposium, www.law.berkeley.edu. October 26, 2001.

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• I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.

  Mercedes Ruehl

  People, Choices, Brain

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• For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Drinking, Intoxication

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• Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Race, Combination, Variety

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• You ask about my opinion on vivisection. I quite agree that it is justifiable for real investigations on physiology; but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.

  Charles Darwin

  Real, Science, Animal

  "Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution".

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• The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved technology and physiology is more than the simple addition of the two.

  Robert Fogel

  Technology, Simple, Two

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• Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.

  Boris Sidis

  Psychics, Psychology, Process

  Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”

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• Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

  Haldan Keffer Hartline

  Research, Benefits, Tangible

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• Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Response

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.3, Seven Stories Press

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• I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.

  Bill Watterson

  Laughing, Existentialism, Comic Strips

  "The Days Are Just Packed". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1993.

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• The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Attitude, Philosophy, Medicine

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Psychology, Firsts

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• Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

  Dorothea Lange

  Life, Photography, Eye

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• The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Philosophy, Ideas, Medicine

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