“Strength is often quiet, receptive determination rather than chest-thumping pushiness.” — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
Why is it surprising that scientists might have long hair and wear cowboy boots? In fields like neuroscience, where the events you… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The human brain is a cultural artifact. We don't load culture into a virgin brain like software loading into a computer; rather,… — Lisa Feldman Barrett Copy Share Image
“Masturbation and meditation both promote physical and mental wellbeing.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“AI - The Whole Picture In medicine, we have a condition called oxygen toxicity, which means, even oxygen can do harm if… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Our metaphors for the operation of the brain are frequently drawn from the production line. We think of the brain as a… — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
“Letting go of ill will does not mean passivity, silence, or allowing yourself or others to be harmed. [...] There is plenty… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“Truth in the human world, is constructed, defined and then reconstructed by the human self.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We-each of us-are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe. It is our true home, and thinking that this physical world is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What would be the use of a neuroscience that cannot tell us anything about love? — John Zachary Young Copy Share Image
Although a lot of my work on the mind has been rather abstract and philosophical, I'm interested in psychology and neuroscience and… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
“- I'm a Neuroscientist. - What's that? What do you study? - I study your brain!” — Vardan Hambardzumyan Copy Share Image
“The pattern recognition theory of mind that I articulate in this book is based on a different fundamental unit: not the neuron… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“What you today perceive as beautiful and special, over time, becomes not so special. That’s how the human brain works.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge. — Richard Gregory Copy Share Image
“Modern society is modern because of its mental cocktail of reasoning and compassion. Turn the compassion network in the brain off, and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works,… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“It is important to note that the design of an entire brain region is simpler than the design of a single neuron.… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“Every single human being is neurologically predisposed to be biased in various walks of life. It is biologically impossible to be absolutely… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Despite our scientific and philosophical knowledge, it is still difficult to accept that we are alone in the Universe and that our… — Jose M. Musacchio Copy Share Image
I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment,… — Mayim Bialik Copy Share Image
Cognitive neuroscience is entering an exciting era in which new technologies and ideas are making it possible to study the neural basis… — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
