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> [With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, it the greatest mystery of all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/with-the-arrival-of-humans-it-has-been-said-the-universe-has-suddenly/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

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## More by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

> [The brain abhors discrepancies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/the-brain-abhors-discrepancies/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/it-may-well-be-our-brains-are-wired-up-to-be-slightly-more-optimistic/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/if-you-re-a-thinking-person-the-liver-is-interesting-but-nothing-is/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/even-today-no-computer-can-understand-language-as-well-as-a-three/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [Without ducking responsibility, what's wrong with medicine today is that it is predicated on providing treatment, not on reducing suffering. Not on solving problems.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/without-ducking-responsibility-what-s-wrong-with-medicine-today-is/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/there-is-no-real-independent-self-aloof-from-other-human-beings/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/a-culture-without-mythology-is-not-really-a-civilisation/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/the-boundary-between-neurology-and-psychiatry-is-becoming/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/the-visual-system-of-the-brain-has-the-organization-computational/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/remember-that-politics-colonialism-imperialism-and-war-also-originate/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/the-minute-you-succumb-to-outside-pressure-you-cease-to-be-creative/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/when-i-speak-of-artistic-universals-i-am-not-denying-the-enormous/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/great-art-allows-you-to-transcend-your-mortal-frame-and-to-reach-for/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/lofty-questions-about-the-mind-are-fascinating-to-ask-philosophers/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

> [Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/here-is-this-three-pound-mass-of-jelly-you-can-hold-in-the-palm-of/)

[Vilayanur S. Ramachandran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vilayanur-s-ramachandran/)

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