“- I'm a Neuroscientist. - What's that? What do you study? - I study your brain!” — Vardan Hambardzumyan 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
“Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.” — Santiago Ramon y Cajal 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
“Truth in the human world, is constructed, defined and then reconstructed by the human self.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I'm a professor of neuroscience at Stanford University, and I'm kind of half-neurobiologist, half-primatologist. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows. — Leon Kass 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
The kind of neuroscience that I do and my colleagues do is almost like the weatherman. We are always chasing storms. We… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
Neuroscience is now a very important research area in biology. We are now understanding a lot more about brains in babies, as… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Here's the thing, physics was never my strong suit. It's the sole reason I didn't major in neuroscience. I had to do… — Katy O'Brian Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated with knowing the self. This fascination led me to submerge myself in art, study neuroscience, and later to… — Ariel Garten Copy Share Image
The reason a person is a republican is because something is wrong with them. Again, that's science - that's neuroscience. You cannot… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
I found myself fascinated by neuroscience, attended a monthly lecture on brain science at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and was invited… — Siri Hustvedt 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
“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
“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
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
“I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth, nor did I have access to information like you do today… — Abhijit Naskar 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
As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take time… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
“Why?”. Neurological research shows that merely wondering about an interesting question activates regions of the brain linked to reward-processing. Curiosity—the act of… — Warren Berger Copy Share Image
“Synaptic downscaling during the meditation leads to a reduced energy demand of the brain. Meditation can provide synaptic re-normalization. Meditation represents a… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
“One of the things that I find especially worrisome is the propensity for people to perceive reality as dyadic, comprised of two… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
“Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“At a cellular level of the human mind, Islamophobia is not really a matter of social stigma, rather it is a natural… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“When it comes to our embedded beliefs, our relative intolerance to ambiguous and contrary information leads us in many instances to ignore… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
“This hinted at something that no one had ever suspected -- that the brain tracks moving things more easily that still things.… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
“That day, the great mind in neuroscience Michael A. Persinger, who is now a good friend of mine, made me realize that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Life is a useless passion, an exciting journey of a mammal in survival mode. Each day is a miracle, a blessing unexplored… — Mohadesa Najumi Copy Share Image
“Masturbation and meditation both promote physical and mental wellbeing.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.” — Nayef Al-Rodhan Copy Share Image
I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience. — William Mapother Copy Share Image
“Our mistakes rewire our brain and open up new gateways of perception.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
