To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist. Timothy Leary More Quotes by Timothy Leary More Quotes From Timothy Leary What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them. Timothy Leary psychedelic patterns wish There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third. Timothy Leary When our systematic knowledge of human expressive behavior is more advanced, it will be possible to study the literary and historical documents of the past and to determine the expressed and implied views of personality that determined the behavior of our ancestors. Timothy Leary behavior personality past knowledge The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding. Timothy Leary our anxiety understanding personality At the peak of his scientific triumphs, Newton became a 'head,' a student of the inner spiritual world - or in modern terms, a neurologician. Modern physicists do not dwell on this dramatic life-change in their hero. Timothy Leary student hero spiritual world In pursuing my fervent goal of relating external stimuli to reports about internal-neural change, we were, paradoxically enough, following the most orthodox tradition in psychology. Timothy Leary about tradition change enough Philosophy is a performance sport - you have to play it with somebody back and forth. Timothy Leary performance back you philosophy I totally deplore the notion of an M.D. giving pills to patients - a medical doctor giving psychological or psychoactive change agents to another person. Timothy Leary doctor medical change giving My profession is I'm a dissident philosopher. Timothy Leary profession philosopher When people criticize the computer generation, the high tech generation, and say they neglect the body - well, just walk through a college campus, and you'll see the healthiest, most physically conscious and alert group of human beings I've ever met. So they're not nerds at all. Timothy Leary generation walk you people Current psychological priesthoods ignore the fact that the profession of psychology was originated by Gustav Theodor Fechner, a physicist who recognized that the key to understanding human nature was the relationship between external stimuli and the brain. Timothy Leary ignore nature brain relationship From my first published paper in 1946, my obsession has been to objectify inner experiences, to demystify the software of human existence. How? By relating changes in external behavior, systematically and lawfully, to changes in the brain. Timothy Leary human changes behavior brain The twentieth century may well find historical status as the epoch in which man began to study himself as a scientific phenomenon. Timothy Leary status find man study