Ivan Roca

“And in poetry, beauty is no ornament; it is the meaning. It is the truth.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way

“Our conscious experience arises out of the laws of nature, the states of our brain, and our entanglement with the world.”
― John Brockman, Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction in Life and Markets – Expert Perspectives on the Mind, Morality, and Ethics

“What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so simple that it is easily overlooked. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. This morning, for example, I felt as if I had come to myself on a strange island. And what does such a cast away do? Why he pokes around the neighborhood and he doesn't miss a trick. To become aware of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.”
― Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

“Liquid water has importance as a solvent, a solute, a reactant and a biomolecule, structuring proteins, nucleic acids, cells and controlling our consciousness. In the meanwhile, water makes up over about half of us and the most abundant solid material and fundamental to start formation. There is a hundred times as many water molecules in our bodies as the sum of all the other molecules. Life cannot evolve or continue, or in other words, everything is nothing without water. Thus, we say that water plays a central role in many of the human activities. However, we nearly always overlook deep researches in the structure and properties of water and the special relationship it has with our lives.”
― Xiao Feng Pang, Water: Molecular Structure And Properties