Eric Kandel Quotes

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• I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially…
• A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels…
• Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of…
• One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But it is equally…
• I would not necessarily say that scientists and artists need to collaborate with one another, but it would be helpful for them to talk to…
• As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.
• One can, in principle, outline sort of a set of neural circuits that are critically involved and even identify disorders that affect different components of…
• In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of…
• Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt do, the…
• Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function…
• If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective.
• The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience.
• I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at my lab looking…
• My heart beats in three-quarter time.
• Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.
• Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.
• If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short term memory into…
• The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions.
• The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near…

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