“I believe that there is a fundamental mystery in my existence, transcending any biological account of the development of my body (including my brain) with its genetic inheritance and its evolutionary origin.”

— John C. Eccles

Source: Facing Reality (1970), p. 83
Context: I believe that there is a fundamental mystery in my existence, transcending any biological account of the development of my body (including my brain) with its genetic inheritance and its evolutionary origin. … I cannot believe that this wonderful gift of a conscious existence has no further future, no possibility of another existence under some other unimaginable conditions.

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John C. Eccles12

Australian neurophysioloigst 1903–1997

Stephen Jay Gould book Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes

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Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes (1983)

“If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.”

Charles Simic (1938) American poet

“The genus Homo, by its origin, is the result of confluence of circumstances. But its further evolutionary development until acquiring a full-fledged mind was only possible with its crucial role.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

“I clung to nothing, in a way I was calm. But it was a horrible calm—because of my body; my body, I saw with its eyes, I heard with its ears, but it was no longer me; it sweated and trembled by itself and I didn’t recognize it any more.”

Jean Paul Sartre book The Wall

Source: The Wall

“Piaget, who was originally trained as a biologist, views intellectual development as an interaction of an inherited genetic program with the environment. It is no coincidence that he calls this conception "genetic epistemology," in effect the study of the hereditary unfolding of understanding.”

Edward O. Wilson book On Human Nature

On Human Nature (1978), Ch.3 Development

“My style is intentionally natural, I will fight till the last moment of my biological existence.”

Ali Raymi (1973–2015) Boxing Knockout Artist

As quoted in "Mysterious junior flyweight Ali Raymi killed in Yemen" by Ryan Songalia, in The Ring (28 May 2015) http://ringtv.craveonline.com/news/390403-mysterious-junior-flyweight-ali-raymi-killed-in-yemen <br class="br">Context: My style is intentionally natural, I will fight till the last moment of my biological existence. … I don’t like discussing my pre-boxing past as I feel it will be considered inappropriately semi-legendary.