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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 16 quotes by Iain McGilchrist Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, doctor, writer, and former Oxford literary scholar. McGilchrist came to prominence after the publication of his book The Master and His Emissary, subtitled The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. McGilchrist read English at New College, Oxford, but having published Against Criticism in 1982, he later retrained in medicine and has been a neuroimaging researcher at Johns Hopkins University in... Read full biography of Iain McGilchrist → 1 2 Ctrl → It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things.... → 0 Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the... → 0 The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans. 0 Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very... → 0 Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments. 0 The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary. 0 The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. 0 The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent. 0 Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture... → 0 In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses... → 0 The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building and the... → 0 To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with... → 0 Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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