I'm a professor of neuroscience at Stanford University, and I'm kind of half-neurobiologist, half-primatologist. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
“Masturbation and meditation both promote physical and mental wellbeing.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
There are things that neuroscience is useful for in terms of understanding behavior, but there are also things it is not all… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated with knowing the self. This fascination led me to submerge myself in art, study neuroscience, and later to… — Ariel Garten Copy Share Image
Here's the thing, physics was never my strong suit. It's the sole reason I didn't major in neuroscience. I had to do… — Katy O'Brian Copy Share Image
The kind of neuroscience that I do and my colleagues do is almost like the weatherman. We are always chasing storms. We… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
Neuroscience is now a very important research area in biology. We are now understanding a lot more about brains in babies, as… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
I found myself fascinated by neuroscience, attended a monthly lecture on brain science at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and was invited… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The reason a person is a republican is because something is wrong with them. Again, that's science - that's neuroscience. You cannot… — Janeane Garofalo 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
“Synaptic downscaling during the meditation leads to a reduced energy demand of the brain. Meditation can provide synaptic re-normalization. Meditation represents a… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
“Self-consciousness is, from a naturalistic point of view (in this case neurobiological), not more than a degree of sophistication of neural processes.… — István Aranyosi Copy Share Image
“Yes, there is an outside world, and yes, there is an objective reality, but in moving through this world, we constantly apply… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
“With regard to sleep and waking, we must consider what they are: whether they are peculiar to soul or to body, or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Years of neuroscience research have led to the current understanding of the brain as a prediction machine—an amazingly complex organ that processes… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
Make sure to immediately write down any impressions you receive. Intuitive impressions are often subtle and therefore 'evaporate' very quickly, so make… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
“We became an intelligent species by solving problems, and now that we are entering a technological era where we no longer need… — Abhijit Naskar 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
“Life is a useless passion, an exciting journey of a mammal in survival mode. Each day is a miracle, a blessing unexplored… — Mohadesa Najumi Copy Share Image
“Almost every single intellectual has been obsessed with an illustrious question - what drives morality! Yet none of them has been able… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The seat of consciousness and intelligence was from the earliest times regarded by the Egyptians as both the heart and the bowels… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“AI - The Whole Picture In medicine, we have a condition called oxygen toxicity, which means, even oxygen can do harm if… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“That day, the great mind in neuroscience Michael A. Persinger, who is now a good friend of mine, made me realize that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“This hinted at something that no one had ever suspected -- that the brain tracks moving things more easily that still things.… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
“Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
“...what draws us into a story and keeps us there is the firing of our dopamine neurons, signaling that intriguing information is… — Lisa Cron Copy Share Image
I work in a mix of areas and am informed by them all: child development, psycholinguistics, education, and most especially, cognitive neuroscience. — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
“Our insecurities drive us. Our fears control us. We try to hide the first and deny the second and it is exhausting… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
“neuroscience research—has been providing evidence that “independent thought” is certainly not absolute, and possibly a figment of our egos’ making.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“The apparent wall between your body and the world is more like a picket fence. And between your mind and the world,… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“With the rise of AI, machines may or may not become sentient, but one thing is for certain - human mind will… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
I wondered if there was a way to teach people how to use their imaginations in prayer and worship. So I began… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“Fairytales are healthy for the children. As they grow up, the magical thinking wears off, but the fairytale-induced creative brain circuits stay… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“What you today perceive as beautiful and special, over time, becomes not so special. That’s how the human brain works.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
