"Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you……" — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
"Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity."
—
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
26 Quotes by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran has 26 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.
-
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns…
-
A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
-
There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts…
-
Here is a neuron that fires when I reach and grab something, but it also fires when I watch Joe…
-
There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in…
-
Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated…
-
The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
-
Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India…
-
The brain abhors discrepancies.
-
We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts,…
-
If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
See all 26 quotes by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran »
More Brain Quotes
This quote is filed under Brain Quotes,
one of 4,501 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want,…
— Kevyn Aucoin
-
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
-
It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different,…
— Dido Armstrong
-
Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you…
— Margaret Atwood
-
All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the…
— Diane Ackerman
-
As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,…
— Diane Ackerman
-
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you…
— Francis Bacon
-
All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences,…
— Roger Bacon
-
Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you…
— Christian Bale
-
One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.
— Scott Adams
-
The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.
— Dave Barry
-
I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless…
— Drew Barrymore
See all 4,501 Brain Quotes »