Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quotes

Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 25 quotes by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran (born 1951) is a neuroscientist known primarily for his work in the fields of behavioral neurology and visual psychophysics. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Graduate Program in Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego. Ramachandran is also Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition affiliated with the UC San Diego Department of Psychology. Ramachandran is... Read full biography of Vilayanur S. Ramachandran → 1 2 Ctrl → Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but... → 0 We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the... → 0 Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain. 0 If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain. 0 Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted. 0 You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that. 0 The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative. 0 When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you... → 0 If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you... → 0 My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries... → 0 The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and it's only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just... → 0 If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified. 0 People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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25 quotes by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran