Arrivals Quote by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The brain abhors discrepancies.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Without ducking responsibility, what's wrong with medicine today is that it is predicated on providing treatment, not on reducing suffering. Not on solving problems.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran