“Beneath the surface of the protective parts of trauma survivors there exists an undamaged essence, a Self that is confident, curious, and… — Bessel A. van der Kolk 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
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
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
“Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct and the costs of an occasional mistake acceptable. Jumping… — Daniel Kahneman 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
“Taking in the good is not about putting a happy shiny face on everything, nor is it about turning away from the… — Rick Hanson 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
“[K]eep in mind the big picture, the 1,000-foot view. See the impermanence of whatever is at issue, and the many causes and… — Rick Hanson 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
“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
Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of culture. While studying… — Natalie Jeremijenko Copy Share Image
“Given the power of modern molecular techniques, it is easy to forget that the ultimate objective of physiological discoveries is to find… — Oné R. Pagán Copy Share Image
“There is a fine line deep within the mind that makes self-belief and confidence, the defining elements of success and failure in… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
I would say to anybody who thinks that all the problems in philosophy can be translated into empirically verifiable answers - whether… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Our society’s love affair with mechanical devices that respond at a button-touch ill prepares us to deal with the unruly organic mind… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
“Hitherto the conception of chemical transmission at nerve endings and neuronal synapses, originating in Loewi's discovery, and with the extension that the… — Henry Hallett Dale Copy Share Image
“You are at the same time, a god and a demon. When the god in you lacks nourishment, the demon gets hold… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience. I worked… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
The part of my brain that was responsible for creating the world I lived and moved in and for taking the raw… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The elegant study... is consistent with the themes of modern cognitive neuroscience . Every aspect of thought and emotion is rooted in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Within your mind, there are hardly any lines at all. All its contents flow into each other, sensations becoming thoughts, feelings, desires,… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“An autistic's default mode network, or how noisy or active a brain is when it's at rest, is 42% higher than that… — Sol Smith Copy Share Image
“Meditation is good for the elderly, great for adults, even greater for children, and greater still for pregnant women. So, meditate and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The Holy Grail of neuroscience has been to understand how and where information is encoded in the brain. — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
“The self has no inherent, unconditional, absolute existence apart from the network of causes it arises from, in, and as.” — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“What we value so much, the altruistic “good” side of human nature, can also have a dark side. Altruism can be the… — Barbara Oakley Copy Share Image
Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“Our insecurities drive us. Our fears control us. We try to hide the first and deny the second and it is exhausting… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
“A vida vem do éter que se condensa Mas o que mais no cosmos me entusiasma É a esfera microscópica do plasma… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“Yes, there is an outside world, and yes, there is an objective reality, but in moving through this world, we constantly apply… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
There are things that neuroscience is useful for in terms of understanding behavior, but there are also things it is not all… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that the explanation for consciousness will arise from the mercilessly scientific account of psychology and neuroscience, but, still, isn't… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
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