Quotes About Eccles

There is a Divine Providence operating over and above the materialistic happenings of biological evolution.

Do you know why I love mathematics? Because it blew your mind for free when you couldn't get drugs? Eccles snorted in surprise. Well, yes, but there's another reason.

It would have diverted if ever seen the shuddersome spectacle of this semidemented zany amid the inspissated grime of his glaucous den making believe to read his usylessly unreadable Blue Book of Eccles, édition de ténèbres, (even yet sighs the Most Different, Dr. Poindejenk, authorised bowdler and censor

In 1986 Eccles proposed that the probability of neurotransmitter release depended on quantum mechanical processes, which can be influenced by the intervention of the mind. This, Eccles said, provided a basis for the action of a free will.