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Robert M. Sapolsky has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping a neurobiology…
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We're getting along so well; I trust you so much for this one second that I'm going to let you yank on…
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Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.
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We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.
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Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.
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The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate…
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Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side
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Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.
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Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way…
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If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories,…
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Digestion is quickly shut down during stress…The parasympathetic nervous system, perfect for all that calm, vegetative physiology, normally mediates the actions of…
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Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the…
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of…
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In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to…
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My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its…
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A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence…
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It has been recognized that hydrogen bonds restrain protein molecules to their native configurations, and I believe that as the methods of…
— Linus Pauling
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Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of…
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Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which…
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Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to…
— Lionel Tiger
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What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.
— Joseph Glanvill
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Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.
— Unknown Author
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