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Born: 1944-02-25
Profession: Scientist
Nation: Portuguese
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Tags: Cannot, Stop, Write


Tags: Decisions, Feelings, Help


Tags: Brain, Enough, Feelings

Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.

Tags: Emotions, Rather, Toward


Tags: Life, Living, Problem


Tags: Body, Brain, Mind


Tags: Biological, Body, Mind

Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.

Tags: Put, Time, Writing

Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.

Tags: Nature, Politics, Religion


Tags: Body, Changes, Feelings

For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.

Tags: Joy, Ocean, Small


Tags: Put, Self, Simple


Tags: After, Decisions, Lost

Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or thirst, they can satisfy that. It's this basic feeling that there is life ticking away inside of you.

Tags: Feeling, Life, Pain


Tags: Mind, Self, Simple


Tags: Others, Place, Self


Tags: Others, Self, Unexpected

We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have a distinctive component that announces an unequivocal link between images and the existence of life in our organism.

Tags: Life, Thought, Thoughts


Tags: Body, Brain, Talk


Tags: Brain, Old, Pain

When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn. There are also changes in your heart, your guts: they slow down. And there are hormonal changes.

Tags: Experience, Heart, Sadness

Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains develop because they are an expedient way of managing life in a body.

Tags: Life, Music, Science


Tags: Brain, Self, Time