Explaining his attraction to the field of quantum mechanics, as quoted by Alexi Assmus in [Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academies Press, 1999, 0309064341, 182]
Modern Quantum Mechanics, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2011.
The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next (2007)
Source: Heart of Ice A Triple Threat Novel with April Henry (Thomas Nelson), p. 81
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Eight, Healing Ourselves
Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Journey to Ixtlan" (Chapter 8)
The Architecture of Theories (1891)
Context: The one primary and fundamental law of mental action consists in a tendency to generalisation. Feeling tends to spread; connections between feelings awaken feelings; neighboring feelings become assimilated; ideas are apt to reproduce themselves. These are so many formulations of the one law of the growth of mind. When a disturbance of feeling takes place, we have a consciousness of gain, the gain of experience; and a new disturbance will be apt to assimilate itself to the one that preceded it. Feelings, by being excited, become more easily excited, especially in the ways in which they have previously been excited. The consciousness of such a habit constitutes a general conception.
The cloudiness of psychological notions may be corrected by connecting them with physiological conceptions. Feeling may be supposed to exist, wherever a nerve-cell is in an excited condition. The disturbance of feeling, or sense of reaction, accompanies the transmission of disturbance between nerve-cells or from a nerve-cell to a muscle-cell or the external stimulation of a nerve-cell. General conceptions arise upon the formation of habits in the nerve-matter, which are molecular changes consequent upon its activity and probably connected with its nutrition.
Source: Official Site http://www.josephmcmanners.com at www.josephmcmanners.com (accessed July 8, 2007)
A 1989 interview with Granta magazine founder Bill Buford. Reprinted in Adbusters Magazine #71.
