I would not necessarily say that scientists and artists need to collaborate with one another, but it would be helpful for them… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Vienna is relatively small. And it had wonderful salons, opportunities for people to get together. There was a lot of interaction between… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the underlying precept of the new science of mind is that all mental processes are biological—they all depend on organic molecules… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“Science seeks to understand complex processes by reducing them to their essential actions and studying the interplay of those actions--and this reductionist… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress. — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
I have a philosophy that has guided me throughout all of my scientific career, and that is, I think of myself as… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Carl von Rokitansky is one of the founders of scientific medicine and systematized it, looking at what the clinical symptoms mean. The… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the underlying precept of the new science of mind is that all mental processes are biological—they all depend on organic molecules and cellular… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
I don't think neurobiology is going to replace aesthetics or art history. It's a parallel discipline that adds a new dimension. I always compare… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But it is… — Eric Kandel 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
The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear to me… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
It may act as an ancillary factor, but by itself, the mutation in tau doesn't give you Alzheimer's disease. This is not to say… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short term memory… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
