An interest in the brain requires no justification other than a curiosity to know why we are here, what we are doing here, and where we are going.
Interpretation
Curiosity about the brain is a natural desire to understand our existence and purpose.
This quote emphasizes the intrinsic value of understanding the brain, suggesting that the pursuit of knowledge about our own minds and consciousness is driven by fundamental questions of existence. It posits that a genuine curiosity to explore these inquiries is justification enough for delving into the complexities of the brain, as it shapes our perception of life and our journey within it.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of neuroscience, you might say, 'An interest in the brain requires no justification other than a curiosity to know...'
To call someone anti-American, indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination. An inability to see the world in terms other than those that the establishment has set out for you: If you're not a Bushie, you're a Taliban. If you don't love us, you hate us. If you're not Good, you're Evil. If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists.
And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear is a whispering. And we cannot understand the whispering, because our minds have been invaded by a war. A war that we have both won and lost. The very worst sort of war. A war that captures dreams and re-dreams them. A war that has made us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.
Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.
Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army and calls it a war.
Most of the Catholics Christians I've met would for all practical purposes believe Jesus is God only, and we are human only. We missed the big point. The point is the integration, both in Jesus and ourselves.
The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent - that of total separation of Church and State. No religious establishment by law exists among us. The conscience is left free from all restraint and each is permitted to worship his Maker after his own judgement.
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