“Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.” — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
“Brain thrives on assumptions, that ain't the problem, trouble begins when all thought ends at assumption.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Too must sentiment and no reason, destroys both the path and the pedestrian.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Strength is often quiet, receptive determination rather than chest-thumping pushiness.” — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“One brain’s blueprint may promote joy more readily than most; in another, pessimism reigns. Whether happiness infuses or eludes a person depends,… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
“The brain works in a holistic, cooperative way that makes our basest desire or most abject fear as expressive of who we… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment,… — Mayim Bialik Copy Share Image
More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain -… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
“The human brain always concocts biases to aid in the construction of a coherent mental life, exclusively suitable for an individual’s personal… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Meditation is good for the elderly, great for adults, even greater for children, and greater still for pregnant women. So, meditate and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When it comes to how neuroscience could help the wider public, the worst thing is when we make advances in, say, mindfulness,… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Modern society is modern because of its mental cocktail of reasoning and compassion. Turn the compassion network in the brain off, and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
I spent so much of my life reading about spirituality and reading about neuroscience and trying different meditation practices. It's a really… — Moby Copy Share Image
“Speechlessness, however, affirmed in the diagnosis, is carefully based on the facts of the examination, as we see by rendering the statements… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience… — Ze Frank Copy Share Image
“Every single human being is neurologically predisposed to be biased in various walks of life. It is biologically impossible to be absolutely… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“How can a three-pound mass of jelly that you can hold in your palm imagine angels, contemplate the meaning of infinity, and… — V.S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“One of the things that I find especially worrisome is the propensity for people to perceive reality as dyadic, comprised of two… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
“The reason I said earlier that the mind is neither the Cartesian, highly intellectualized, cranium-confined firm-and-frozen ego, nor the self-effaced, world-immersed, flowing,… — István Aranyosi Copy Share Image
“Genetics, accidents of birth or events in early childhood have left criminals' brains and bodies with measurable flaws predisposing them to committing… — Adrian Raine Copy Share Image
The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but… — David H. Hubel Copy Share Image
“The pattern recognition theory of mind that I articulate in this book is based on a different fundamental unit: not the neuron… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
“Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.” — Nayef Al-Rodhan Copy Share Image
I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience. — William Mapother Copy Share Image
As Siri says, who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“psychology, and medicine. Accounts of scientific lives in neuroscience” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our mistakes rewire our brain and open up new gateways of perception.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
