Eric Kandel Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Eric Kandel quotes and sayings page 2 (scientist). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 48 we have.
“I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian.”
“In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.”
“The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions.”
“One of the wonderful things about Internet is it's like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life.”
“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.”
“Rather than studying the most complex form of memory in a very complicated animal, we had to take the most simple form - an implicit form of memory - in a very simple animal. So I began to look around for very simple animals. And I focused in on the marine snail Aplysia.”
“Psychoanalysis has a degree of unreliability about it. You will never know whether you've found the truth. You may find a subjective truth, but you don't know.”
“The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart.”
“As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.”
“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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