"One of the ultimate challenges of biology is……" — Eric Kandel
"One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But it is equally conceivable that the exchange would be useful for the beholders of art, for people who enjoy art, for historians, and for the artists themselves."
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Eric Kandel
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39 Quotes by Eric Kandel
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The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and…
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It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us…
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Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing,
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The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the…
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Has it ever struck you ... that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by…
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There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my…
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I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its…
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My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold…
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My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to…
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In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking…
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The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never…
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Long-term memory involves enduring changes that result from the growth of new synaptic connections.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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