Neuroscience Quotes

The elegant study... is consistent with the themes of modern cognitive neuroscience. Every aspect of thought and emotion is rooted in brain structure and function, including many psychological disorders and, presumably, genius. The study confirms that the brain is a modular system comprising multiple intelligences, mostly nonverbal. (Steven Pinker)
Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was "the software, not the hardware”, increasingly philosophers have come to recognize that understanding how the brain works is essential to understanding the mind. View quote
Patricia Churchland
I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about? View quote
Francis Collins
Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering. View quote
Matthieu Ricard
I am trained as a psychologist, and I think of all human issues in terms of psychology, neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary theory. View quote
Howard Gardner
Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes. View quote
David Chalmers
Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century. View quote
David Chalmers
Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different - the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is. View quote
Stanley B. Prusiner
I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience. View quote
William Mapother
When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person. View quote
Daniel Goleman
In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain. (Aloe Blacc)
There was another major phase of split-brain research where we studied the patients as a way of getting at the other questions very much alive in neuroscience, everything from questions about visual midline overlap to spatial attention and resource allocations. At this point the split-brain patients provided a way of examining cortical-subcortical relationships, and other matters. View quote
Michael Gazzaniga
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows. View quote
Leon Kass
The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics. View quote
Leon Kass
The subject of learning lies in the provinces of neuroscience and psychology. It is the opposite of instinct. Instinct is generically-determined behaviour; learning is behaviour modified by experience. View quote
Matt Ridley
I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it. View quote
Jonah Lehrer
Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing. View quote
David Eagleman
From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each influenced by a different brain chemical: I call them the Explorer, Builder, Director, and Negotiator. View quote
Helen Fisher
It is especially important for managers to know about, neuroplasticity, the greatest discovery in neuroscience in the past 20 years. It refers to the fact that the brain is remarkably plastic. It can grow and change for the better throughout life. In fact, "plastic" denotes the brain's ability to grow and change throughout life. View quote
Edward Hallowell
I think neuroscience is obviously very esoteric, but I think there are aspects of it that can absolutely be brought down to the level of an interested 11-, 12-, 13-year-old easily. View quote
Mayim Bialik
I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that. (Mayim Bialik)
Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this. View quote
David Chalmers
There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?', and they're finding out that, no, it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we're much more of an organic creature in that way. View quote
Joel Kinnaman
I've always been fascinated with knowing the self. This fascination led me to submerge myself in art, study neuroscience, and later to become a psychotherapist. View quote
Ariel Garten
Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops. View quote
John Katzman