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48 quotes by Eric Kandel

Eric Kandel Kandel at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, 2013 Born Eric Richard Kandel (1929-11-07) November 7, 1929 (age 85) Vienna, Austria Fields Psychiatry and neuroscience Institutions Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Alma mater New York University Medical School Harvard University Notable students Richard Scheller Known for Physiology of memory Notable awards Dickson Prize (1983) Lasker Award...
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I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at my lab looking... →

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One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy.

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A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels... →

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Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages - from Aristotle to Descartes, from... →

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I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.

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Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.

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I don't think neurobiology is going to replace aesthetics or art history. It's a parallel discipline that adds a new dimension. I always... →

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In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these... →

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My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews. My parents... →

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If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short term memory into long term memory.

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Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.

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One of the wonderful things about Internet is it's like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life.

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The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience.

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