John O'Keefe Quotes

#1. Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of national and other biases in the selection of the laureates.

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#2. What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.

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#3. If you take my equipment away from me, I might as well retire.

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#4. Science is international: the best scientists can come from anywhere; they can come from next door, or they can come from a small village in a country anywhere in the world - we need to make it easier.

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#5. Some of the best navigators in the world are London taxi cab drivers. They have to learn 25,000 streets and how to get from one to the other.

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#6. We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.

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#7. I can't say when we will have a cure, but we now know through our findings how to ask the question of what is going wrong at the earliest stage of Alzheimer's.

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#8. I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve.

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#9. Britain punches way above its weight in science, and I think we need to continue to do that, and anything that makes it easier to bring scientists in will be very welcome.

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#10. I am particularly interested in Alzheimer's disease and have been for some time now.

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#11. A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good, and the people are good, And we 're all good fellows together.

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#12. I want to know how the mind works.

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#13. It is an incontrovertible fact that if we want to make progress in basic areas of medicine and biology, we are going to have to use animals.

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#14. What I tend to do is I try and get as much writing done ... I get as much writing done at home before I go into work.

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#15. I do what I do merrily out of curiosity because I want to know how the brain works. That will get me up early in the morning and keep me going all day long.

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