What is needed to break the vicious spiral is a world-wide change in attitudes, values, and social policy. As Einstein put it, We need a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity. — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere. — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
The new way of thinking, spawned by the cognitive revolution, shows strong promise. Reversing previous doctrine in science, the new paradigm affirms that the… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
What is needed to break the vicious spiral is a world-wide change in attitudes, values, and social policy. As Einstein put it, We need… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
The main theme to emerge... is that there appear to be two modes of thinking, verbal and nonverbal, represented rather separately in left and… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
It seems important that the social value factor be more generally recognized as a powerful causal agent in its own right and something to… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
(The mind's) dynamics transcend the time and space of brain physiology. — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by which brains… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
Before brains there was no color or sound in the universe, nor was there any flavor or aroma and probably little sense and no… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
The cells and fibers of the brain must carry some kind of individual identification tags, presumably cytochemical in nature, by which they are distinguished… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
Sperry's thinking about subjective experience, consciousness, the mind, and human values makes a powerful plea for a new scientific examination of ethics in the… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
When the brain is whole, the unified consciousness of the left and right hemispheres adds up to more than the individual properties of the… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
To see a promising solution to a dilemma and then just leave it to questionable development at its own pace without trying to aid… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere. — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
