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Vilayanur S. Ramachandran has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.
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Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic…
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
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There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other…
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Here is a neuron that fires when I reach and grab something, but it also fires when I watch Joe reaching and…
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Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness…
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There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected…
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Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such…
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The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
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Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I…
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence…
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As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And…
— Michiko Kakutani
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Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them.
— Steven Weinberg
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There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other…
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration…
— Lee Smolin
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We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does…
— William H. Gass
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My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall…
— Andrei Sakharov
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What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things…
— Werner Heisenberg
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What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only…
— Antony Garrett Lisi
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Technically you need the extra dimensions. At first people didn't like them too much, but they've got a big benefit, which is…
— Edward Witten
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