John O'Keefe Quotes

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• A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good, and the people are…
• What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.
• Cognitive neuroscience is entering an exciting era in which new technologies and ideas are making it possible to study the neural basis of cognition, perception,…
• We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.
• Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of national and other…
• If you take my equipment away from me, I might as well retire.
• What I tend to do is I try and get as much writing done... I get as much writing done at home before I go…
• Science is international: the best scientists can come from anywhere; they can come from next door, or they can come from a small village in…
• Britain punches way above its weight in science, and I think we need to continue to do that, and anything that makes it easier to…
• It is an incontrovertible fact that if we want to make progress in basic areas of medicine and biology, we are going to have to…
• Some of the best navigators in the world are London taxi cab drivers. They have to learn 25,000 streets and how to get from one…
• I want to know how the mind works.
• I do what I do merrily out of curiosity because I want to know how the brain works. That will get me up early in…

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