Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
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. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
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… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
