Biology Quote by Roger Wolcott Sperry

Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

The new way of thinking, spawned by the cognitive revolution, shows strong promise. Reversing previous doctrine in science, the new paradigm affirms that the…

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that…

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

What is needed to break the vicious spiral is a world-wide change in attitudes, values, and social policy. As Einstein put it, We need…

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

The main theme to emerge... is that there appear to be two modes of thinking, verbal and nonverbal, represented rather separately in left and…

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

It seems important that the social value factor be more generally recognized as a powerful causal agent in its own right and something to…

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

(The mind's) dynamics transcend the time and space of brain physiology.

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by which brains…

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

Before brains there was no color or sound in the universe, nor was there any flavor or aroma and probably little sense and no…

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

The cells and fibers of the brain must carry some kind of individual identification tags, presumably cytochemical in nature, by which they are distinguished…

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

Sperry's thinking about subjective experience, consciousness, the mind, and human values makes a powerful plea for a new scientific examination of ethics in the…

— Roger Wolcott Sperry