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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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A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
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What is reality anyway! It's nothing but a collective hunch.
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When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the…
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If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed.…
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Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a…
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