أنا أتجرّأ وأؤكّد... بأننا لا شيء سوى حزمة أو مجموعة من إحساسات مختلفة تتبع بعضها بعضاً بسرعة لا يمكن تصوُّرها، وبتدفّق وحركة دائمَين.
Я уже отмечал, что после публикации «Близнецов» я получил огромное количество писем – как личных, так и научных. Некоторые из них касались вопросов об однояйцовых близнецах, другие – способов чувствен...
Я решил провести еще один, последний эксперимент. Была ранняя весна, погода стояла холодная, и я пришел в пальто и перчатках, скинув их при входе на диван. Взяв одну из перчаток, я показал ее П.– Что...
Who could have dreamed that in this blind, palsied woman, hidden away, inactivated, over-protected all her life, there lay the germ of an astonishing artistic sensibility (unsuspected by her, as by ot...
When the attack is due (or a little overdue), it will occur, explosively, whether or not there is any provocation.
Unconscious motives may sometimes ally themselves to physiological propensities, of how one cannot abstract an ailment or its treatment from the whole pattern, the context, the economy of someone's li...
That nothing in biology made sense except in the light of evolution and chance, contingency. He put everything in the context of deep evolutionary time. Steve
For the most part, I rarely look at the journals I have kept for the greater part of a lifetime. The act of writing is itself enough; it serves to clarify my thoughts and feelings. The act of writing...
While Crick (and his co-workers) cracked the genetic code—a set of instructions, in general terms, for building a body—Edelman realized early that the genetic code could not specify or control the fat...
Where perception of objects is concerned, Edelman likes to say, the world is not labeled; it does not come already parsed into objects. We must make our perceptions through our own categorizations. Ev...
When I visited Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., (it is the only university in the world for deaf and hearing-impaired students) and talked about the hearing impaired, one of the deaf students...
What they are able to imagine becomes more real to them.
We soon discovered one strong interest that we shared; we were both fascinated by the sixth sense, proprioception: unconscious, invisible, but arguably more vital than any or all of the other five sen...
Visual illusions, too, fascinated me; they showed how intellectual understanding, insight, and even common sense were powerless against the force of perceptual distortions. Gibson’s inverting glasses...
Ucho w liczbach: A youthful ear can hear ten octaves of sound, spanning a range from about thirty to twelve tousand vibrations a second. The avarege ear can distinguish sounds a seventeenth of a tone...
Though the tendency to tic is innate in Tourette's, the particular form of tics often has a personal or historical origin. Thus a name, a sound, a visual image, a gesture, perhaps seen years before an...
Though I revere good writing and art and music, it seems to me that only science, aided by human decency, common sense, farsightedness, and concern for the unfortunate and the poor, offers the world a...
This usually occurs at the moment when my head hits the pillow at night; my eyes close and … I see imagery. I do not mean pictures; more usually they are patterns or textures, such as repeated shapes,...
They saw it as a food of the gods, and believed that the cacao tree originally grew only in Paradise, but was stolen and brought to mankind by their god Quetzalcoatl, who descended from heaven on a be...
There is, among Orthodox Jews, a blessing to be said on witnessing the strange: one blesses God for the diversity of his creation, and one gives thanks for the wonder of the strange.