People try to apply directly results from the cognitive neurosciences directly to classroom practice and I have to tell you I am… — John Medina Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around.… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Letting go of ill will does not mean passivity, silence, or allowing yourself or others to be harmed. [...] There is plenty… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
Although a lot of my work on the mind has been rather abstract and philosophical, I'm interested in psychology and neuroscience and… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
“Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct and the costs of an occasional mistake acceptable. Jumping… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Cognitive neuroscience is entering an exciting era in which new technologies and ideas are making it possible to study the neural basis… — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works,… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“The point is not to resist painful experiences or grasp at pleasant ones: that's a kind of craving - and craving leads… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“Everything a person is and everything he knows resides in the tangled thicket of his intertwined neurons. These fateful, tiny bridges number… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
“Taking in the good is not about putting a happy shiny face on everything, nor is it about turning away from the… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“The human brain is a cultural artifact. We don't load culture into a virgin brain like software loading into a computer; rather,… — Lisa Feldman Barrett Copy Share Image
“[K]eep in mind the big picture, the 1,000-foot view. See the impermanence of whatever is at issue, and the many causes and… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of culture. While studying… — Natalie Jeremijenko Copy Share Image
“The attention given to the side of the head which has received the injury, in connection with a specific reference to the… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience. I was an English… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
“Given the power of modern molecular techniques, it is easy to forget that the ultimate objective of physiological discoveries is to find… — Oné R. Pagán Copy Share Image
“It's a general moral principle that the more power you have over someone, the greater your duty to use that power benevolently.… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“Neuroscientists rarely have to grapple with the issue of presentism versus existentialism. But in practice, neuroscientists are implicitly presentists. They view the… — Dean Buonomano Copy Share Image
“Hitherto the conception of chemical transmission at nerve endings and neuronal synapses, originating in Loewi's discovery, and with the extension that the… — Henry Hallett Dale Copy Share Image
Barry L. Jacobs and colleagues from the neuroscience program at Princeton University showed that when mice ran every day on an exercise… — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
“You are at the same time, a god and a demon. When the god in you lacks nourishment, the demon gets hold… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“There is a fine line deep within the mind that makes self-belief and confidence, the defining elements of success and failure in… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
I would say to anybody who thinks that all the problems in philosophy can be translated into empirically verifiable answers - whether… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
For the last century of neuroscience, lots of people have tried to control neurons using all sorts of different technologies - pharmacology… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
“Our society’s love affair with mechanical devices that respond at a button-touch ill prepares us to deal with the unruly organic mind… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
If we dedicate a certain amount of time each day to cultivating compassion or any other positive quality, we are likely to… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The part of my brain that was responsible for creating the world I lived and moved in and for taking the raw… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience. I worked… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“Within your mind, there are hardly any lines at all. All its contents flow into each other, sensations becoming thoughts, feelings, desires,… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“I was driven less by achievement than by trying to understand, in earnest: What makes human life meaningful? I still felt literature… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
The elegant study... is consistent with the themes of modern cognitive neuroscience . Every aspect of thought and emotion is rooted in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
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