3 Quotes & Sayings By Lyall Watson

Lyall Watson is a biologist, author, and lecturer. He is also an expert in the origins of religion, having written two books on the subject. Watson has spent most of his working life in the biological sciences but has also lectured at Oxford University, Cambridge University, Princeton University, and the University of Pittsburgh. Watson holds degrees in zoology from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and in animal behavior from Harvard University Read more

He lives with his wife in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos. Lyall Watson
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The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of odour well, and is kind to sound - letting it travel several times faster than air will allow, but it inhibits other more personal kinds of communication. Lyall Watson