Quotes by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

Civilisation

Culture

Mythology

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.

Genius

Reach Out

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

Apes

Bananas

Stars

Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.

Three

Today

Years

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.

Art

Stars

Thinking

Here is a neuron that fires when I reach and grab something, but it also fires when I watch Joe reaching and grabbing something. … It’s as though this neuron is adopting the other person’s point of view.

Brain

Fire

Views

Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.

Brain

Hands

Space

In fact, on one occasion, a rather pedantic experimental psychologist was telling him about a long, complicated experiment he had done, incorporating all the proper controls and using considerable technical virtuosity. When he saw Crick’s exasperated expression he said, “but Dr. Crick, we have got it right – we know it’s right,” Crick’s response was, “The point is not whether it’s right. The point is: does it even matter whether its right or wrong?”

Expression

Long

Pain

One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company).

Attention

Examination

Labs

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

Ability

Granted

World

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Ability

Angel

Answers

Apes

Art

Attention

Bananas

Brain

Civilisation

Colonialism

Cosmos

Culture

Discrepancies

Essence

Examination

Expression

Facts

Fiction

Fighting

Fire

Forever

Games

Genius

Granted

Hands

Happiness

Humility

Inspiration

Labs

Long

May

Mean

Medicine

Motivation

Mythology

Neurology

Numbers

Order

Organization

Pain

People

Reach Out

Real

Responsibility

Romantic Love

Self

Space

Stars

Suffering

Thinking

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Quotes by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.

Here is a neuron that fires when I reach and grab something, but it also fires when I watch Joe reaching and grabbing something. … It’s as though this neuron is adopting the other person’s point of view.

Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

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