When the brain is whole, the unified consciousness of the left and right hemispheres adds up to more than the individual properties of the separate hemispheres. — 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 be dealt with directly as such. No more critical task can be projected for the 1970s than that of seeking for civilized society a new, elevated set of value guidelines more suited to man's expanded numbers… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share
(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
