Biological Response Quotes

A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. .. When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim towards reproduction.

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.

You are part of a complex social network that changes your biology with every interaction, and which your actions can change.

Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.

Belief creates biology.

Yawns are hard to refute.

Every single cell in your body is affected by every single thought that you have.

Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.

Your body, which is very physical, is under the influence of your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, your dreams, your fantasies, your desires, your instincts, your drives, your imagination. All these things orchestrate themselves - all these internal activities that are in the invisible domain that we call consciousness actually have very precise physical effects both in our biology, but they also influence our perception of the world.

We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why.

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

If you are having the experience of anxiety, your body is making adrenaline and cortisone, if you are having the experience of tranquility, your body starts making valium, if you are having the experience of exhilaration and joy, your body makes interleukins and interferons which are powerful anti-cancer drugs. So, your body is constantly converting your experiences into molecules.

Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.

Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.

We're finally moving out of the realm of solely discussing biology in regards to a drug-based world.

Have you ever seen a really good chocolate dish & women? It affects women not like men. It’s incredible.

Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe inforced obedience, by wielding the threat of expulsion. Fear of rejection isn't just psychological; it's biological. It's in our cells.

The cell never acts; it reacts.

If you have got a living force and you're not using it, nature kicks you back. The blood boils just like you put it in a pot.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact that the same motions and muscles of the face are employed both in laughing and crying.

Every cell in your body is eavesdropping on your thoughts.

There is no such thing as a placebo erection.

A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual to restore, replace or compensate for and to preserve its identity, however strange the means may be.

Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.