"The brain abhors discrepancies." — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

"The brain abhors discrepancies."

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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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…
Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate…
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…
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.

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Nature abhors a garden. — Michael Pollan
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. — Henry David Thoreau
Think of yourself as a container for wealth. If your container is small and your money is big, what's going… — T. Harv Eker
This loving person is a person who abhors waste-waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste.… — Leo Buscaglia
Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset. — Clare Boothe Luce
Nature abhors annihilation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly… — Gottfried Leibniz
The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in… — Khalil Gibran
What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence. — Joseph Brodsky
That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance. — Bernard DeVoto
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and… — Albrecht Durer

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