Free Quote by Robert Sapolsky

“If organisms indeed lack free will, it implies that we can manipulate and even control their desires using drugs, genetic engineering or direct brain…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Recent experiments in neuroscience support the view that it is our physical brain, following the known laws of science, that determines our actions, and…

— Stephen Hawking

We assume that we have free will and that we make decisions, but we don't. Neurons do. We decide that this sum total driving…

— Rodolfo Llinas

In the mind there is no absolute or free will.

— Baruch Spinoza

“It is hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behavior is determined by physical law, so it seems that we are…

— Stephen Hawking

I used to very politely say that if there is free will then it's in all sorts of boring places, like whether you're going…

— Robert Sapolsky

I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli.

— Mario Bunge

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever…

— Orson Scott Card

Free will is an empty term.

— John Calvin

Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.

— Christopher Hitchens

Intellectually, I believe there's no free will.

— Robert Sapolsky

From spending my decades thinking about behavior and the biological influences on it, I'm convinced by now free will is what we call the…

— Robert Sapolsky