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Colin Blakemore

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[Wikipedia] Sir Colin Blakemore was a British neurobiologist, specialising in vision and the development of the brain. He was Yeung Kin Man Professor of Neuroscience and senior fellow of the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study at City University of Hong Kong. He was a distinguished senior fellow in the Insti

Quotes by Colin Blakemore

The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd…

Colin Blakemore

Art

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If the cells and fibres in one human brain were all stretched out end to end, they would certainly reach to the…

Colin Blakemore

Astonishing

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The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself.

Colin Blakemore

Brain

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I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible…

Colin Blakemore

Biology

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[monkeys] are used only when no other species and no alternatice approach can provide the answers to questions about such conditions as…

Colin Blakemore

Animal

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We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for…

Colin Blakemore

Achieve

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