I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
“The brain works in a holistic, cooperative way that makes our basest desire or most abject fear as expressive of who we… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
“The purpose of all of this (left hemisphere's way of choosing denial or repression over considering an anomaly) is to impose stability… — V.S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“The conscious events that we are aware of are physical events in their own right, just as much as the brain events… — William Hirstein Copy Share Image
“...what draws us into a story and keeps us there is the firing of our dopamine neurons, signaling that intriguing information is… — Lisa Cron Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“[I]f you can be with the pleasant without chasing after it, with the unpleasant without resisting it, and with the neutral without… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The paradigm for our relationships is formed from our earliest experiences and is actually hardwired into our neurological and emotional network.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but… — David H. Hubel Copy Share Image
“One brain’s blueprint may promote joy more readily than most; in another, pessimism reigns. Whether happiness infuses or eludes a person depends,… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every… — Stanley B. Prusiner 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
“I am very much aware of the fact that there would come people who would attempt to proclaim me being a reincarnation… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Well, my parents originally wanted me to become a doctor - that's why I was in school; I was pre-med, and I… — Steven Yeun Copy Share Image
In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain. — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged. — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“Believing in a non-existent unconscious simply reveals the not knowing about how the mind and our memory fundamentally works or who we… — Arne Klingenberg Copy Share Image
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
“How can a three-pound mass of jelly that you can hold in your palm imagine angels, contemplate the meaning of infinity, and… — V.S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human… — Wilder Penfield Copy Share Image
Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops. — John Katzman Copy Share Image
Moore's Law-based technology is so much easier than neuroscience. The brain works in such a different way from the way a computer… — Paul Allen 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
