--- title: "67 Eric Kandel Quotes - Famous Neurologist (Disordered Mind)" description: "Eric Richard Kandel is an Austrian-born American medical doctor who specialized in psychiatry. He was also a neuroscientist and a professor of biochemis..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-eric-kandel-33511.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-eric-kandel-33511.jpg) # Eric Kandel (1929) Neurologist **67** quotes in **662** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Eric Kandel is a neurologist, best known for *Disordered Mind*. ## Quick Facts About Eric Kandel Born November 7, 1929 Profession Neurologist Notable works Disordered Mind ## About Eric Kandel Eric Richard Kandel is an Austrian-born American medical doctor who specialized in psychiatry. He was also a neuroscientist and a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. He was a recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons. He shared the prize with Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard. ## Quotes by Eric Kandel > [Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/self-portraits-are-a-way-of-revealing-something-about-oneself/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c97/eric-kandel-10189_oneself_self-portraits-are-a-way-of-revealing-so_2506526.png) > [My heart beats in three-quarter time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/my-heart-beats-in-three-quarter-time/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31e/eric-kandel-10189_beats_my-heart-beats-in-three-quarter-time-471_471536.png) > [Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/memory-is-everything-without-it-we-are-nothing/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Funny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/funny/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e97/eric-kandel-10189_funny_memory-is-everything-without-it-we-are-n_2129945.png) > [One of the wonderful things about Internet is it's like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/one-of-the-wonderful-things-about-internet-is-it-s-like-a-salon-it/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b08/eric-kandel-10189_different_one-of-the-wonderful-things-about-intern_1435770.png) > [One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/one-of-the-ultimate-challenges-for-biology-is-to-understand-the-brain/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Biology](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/biology/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/655/eric-kandel-10189_biology_one-of-the-ultimate-challenges-for-biolo_1570769.png) > [Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/not-only-freud-but-artists-and-writers-were-also-interested-in-the/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1f/eric-kandel-10189_art_not-only-freud-but-artists-and-writers-w_2333410.png) > [Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/truth-has-many-dimensions-and-the-way-you-arrive-at-truth-in-complex/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Complexes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/complexes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b39/eric-kandel-10189_complexes_truth-has-many-dimensions-and-the-way-yo_1184816.png) > [The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/the-biology-of-mind-bridges-the-sciences-concerned-with-the-natural/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Biology](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/biology/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0bf/eric-kandel-10189_biology_the-biology-of-mind-bridges-the-sciences_1131136.png) > [I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/i-see-psychoanalysis-art-and-biology-ultimately-coming-together-just/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bc/eric-kandel-10189_art_i-see-psychoanalysis-art-and-biology-ult_279524.png) > [As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/as-you-know-in-most-areas-of-science-there-are-long-periods-of/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7b/eric-kandel-10189_areas_as-you-know-in-most-areas-of-science-the_2403328.png) > [Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/life-is-sort-of-a-circle-you-come-back-to-a-lot-of-the-interests-that/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7d/eric-kandel-10189_back_life-is-sort-of-a-circle-you-come-back-t_1647843.png) > [My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/my-parents-genuinely-loved-vienna-and-in-later-years-i-learned-from/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Artistic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a65/eric-kandel-10189_artistic_my-parents-genuinely-loved-vienna-and-in_2375621.png) > [I was reluctant to be critical of the United States because I thought the United States could do no wrong; that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/i-was-reluctant-to-be-critical-of-the-united-states-because-i-thought/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18a/eric-kandel-10189_because_i-was-reluctant-to-be-critical-of-the-un_1531410.png) > [If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/if-you-have-a-lesion-in-the-hippocampus-in-both-sides-you-have-short/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aaa/eric-kandel-10189_both_if-you-have-a-lesion-in-the-hippocampus_397828.png) > [Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/ever-since-the-enlightenment-people-thought-that-we-were-living-in-a/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Buddhism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/buddhism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b8/eric-kandel-10189_buddhism_ever-since-the-enlightenment-people-thou_343451.png) > [I've been collecting art for much of my adult life. I started around 1960. And my wife and I really enjoy art…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/i-ve-been-collecting-art-for-much-of-my-adult-life-i-started-around/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b28/eric-kandel-10189_adult_i-ve-been-collecting-art-for-much-of-my_942272.png) > [After the war, the Austrians just denied their role in it all. They didn't teach it in school. But since 1990 they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/after-the-war-the-austrians-just-denied-their-role-in-it-all-they/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Austria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/austria/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bde/eric-kandel-10189_austria_after-the-war-the-austrians-just-denied_2523580.png) > [You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of experience and learning. The reason…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/you-could-double-the-number-of-synaptic-connections-in-a-very-simple/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2a/eric-kandel-10189_cause_you-could-double-the-number-of-synaptic_2876594.jpg) > [The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/the-brain-is-a-complex-biological-organ-of-great-computational/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Action](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/action/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d61/eric-kandel-10189_action_the-brain-is-a-complex-biological-organ_2931294.jpg) > [Biology is a way of approaching the truth about the mind. In biology most people don't tackle problems at the level of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/biology-is-a-way-of-approaching-the-truth-about-the-mind-in-biology/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Biology](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/biology/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd4/eric-kandel-10189_biology_biology-is-a-way-of-approaching-the-trut_2046338.png) > [The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/the-task-of-neural-science-is-to-explain-behaviour-in-terms-of-the/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac9/eric-kandel-10189_activity_the-task-of-neural-science-is-to-explain_2144925.png) > [It may act as an ancillary factor, but by itself, the mutation in tau doesn't give you Alzheimer's disease. This is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/it-may-act-as-an-ancillary-factor-but-by-itself-the-mutation-in-tau/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf2/eric-kandel-10189_act_it-may-act-as-an-ancillary-factor-but-by_359393.png) > [One can, in principle, outline sort of a set of neural circuits that are critically involved and even identify disorders that affect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/one-can-in-principle-outline-sort-of-a-set-of-neural-circuits-that/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/809/eric-kandel-10189_affect_one-can-in-principle-outline-sort-of-a-s_803188.png) > [There was an idea that God created man different from other animals, because man was rational and animals had drives and instincts.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/there-was-an-idea-that-god-created-man-different-from-other-animals/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Ancestor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ancestor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7c/eric-kandel-10189_ancestor_there-was-an-idea-that-god-created-man-d_2795064.png) > [I don't think neurobiology is going to replace aesthetics or art history. It's a parallel discipline that adds a new dimension. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/i-don-t-think-neurobiology-is-going-to-replace-aesthetics-or-art/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/748/eric-kandel-10189_about_i-don-t-think-neurobiology-is-going-to-r_260591.png) > [One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/one-of-the-ultimate-challenges-of-biology-is-to-understand-how-the/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3f/eric-kandel-10189_art_one-of-the-ultimate-challenges-of-biolog_265303.png) > [“Science seeks to understand complex processes by reducing them to their essential actions and studying the interplay of those actions--and this reductionist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/science-seeks-to-understand-complex-processes-by-reducing-them-to/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b2/eric-kandel-10189_art_science-seeks-to-understand-complex-proc_976243.png) > [Long-term memory involves enduring changes that result from the growth of new synaptic connections.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/long-term-memory-involves-enduring-changes-that-result-from-the/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Change](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/change/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d2/eric-kandel-10189_change_long-term-memory-involves-enduring-chang_2370286.png) > [Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/memory-has-always-fascinated-me-think-of-it-you-can-recall-at-will/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b3/eric-kandel-10189_always_memory-has-always-fascinated-me-think-of_1554926.png) > [If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/if-you-read-any-of-my-books-they-tend-to-have-a-strong-historical/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c15/eric-kandel-10189_any_if-you-read-any-of-my-books-they-tend-to_2866128.png) > [Nerve cells communicate with one another at specialized points called synapses. And these synapses are plastic - they can be modified by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/nerve-cells-communicate-with-one-another-at-specialized-points-called/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/362/eric-kandel-10189_another_nerve-cells-communicate-with-one-another_2733069.png) > [Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/modernism-in-vienna-brought-together-science-and-culture-in-a-new-way/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Age](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/age/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34e/eric-kandel-10189_age_modernism-in-vienna-brought-together-sci_2847452.png) > [I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/i-was-born-in-vienna-on-november-7-1929-eleven-years-after-the/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d30/eric-kandel-10189_after_i-was-born-in-vienna-on-november-7-1929_1852693.png) > [When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/when-i-was-a-medical-student-in-the-1950s-we-practically-never-spoke/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e37/eric-kandel-10189_about_when-i-was-a-medical-student-in-the-1950_2612716.png) > [Carl von Rokitansky is one of the founders of scientific medicine and systematized it, looking at what the clinical symptoms mean. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/carl-von-rokitansky-is-one-of-the-founders-of-scientific-medicine-and/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Clinical](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/clinical/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38c/eric-kandel-10189_clinical_carl-von-rokitansky-is-one-of-the-founde_2003301.png) > [I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/i-went-to-medical-school-after-having-decided-to-do-so-somewhere/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/002/eric-kandel-10189_decided_i-went-to-medical-school-after-having-de_3078077.png) > [“Indeed, the underlying precept of the new science of mind is that all mental processes are biological—they all depend on organic molecules…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/indeed-the-underlying-precept-of-the-new-science-of-mind-is-that-all/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Mind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mind/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f0/eric-kandel-10189_mind_indeed-the-underlying-precept-of-the-new_39872.png) > [Rather than studying the most complex form of memory in a very complicated animal, we had to take the most simple form…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/rather-than-studying-the-most-complex-form-of-memory-in-a-very/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Animal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/animal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/609/eric-kandel-10189_animal_rather-than-studying-the-most-complex-fo_680482.png) > [“Psychiatric illnesses were classified into two major groups—organic illnesses and functional illnesses—based on presumed differences in their origin. That classification, which dated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-kandel/psychiatric-illnesses-were-classified-into-two-major-groups-organic/) [Eric Kandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-kandel/) [Illness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/illness/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40f/eric-kandel-10189_illness_psychiatric-illnesses-were-classified-in_2711102.jpg) > [I don't think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. 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