Top 31 Gerald Edelman Quotes

#1. When the light that kisses the back of her eyes were birthed, her ancestors were not yet born. How many human lives have ended in the time it took that light to reach her?

How many people have loved only to have lost? How countless, the hopes that have died?

But not this one.

Amie Kaufman

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#2. Consciousness may be seen as the haughty and restless second cousin of morphology. Memory is its mistress, perception its somewhat abused wife, logic its housekeeper, and language its poorly paid secretary

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#3. Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan.

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#4. All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.

William Ellery Channing

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#5. Memory results from a process of continual re-categorization which, by its nature, must be procedural and involve continual motor activity and repeated rehearsal.

Gerald Edelman

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#6. If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee.

A.A. Milne

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#7. Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.

Gerald Edelman

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#8. Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatable, ever - not with identical twins, not even with conjoined twins.

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#9. Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group.

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#10. Hebb place the Law of Effect at the synaptic level by proposing a correlation model of synaptic modification similar to that of Hayek (1952). This work was seminal in providing a basis for many subsequent theoretical studies .

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#11. Early human thought proceeded by metaphor,

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#12. When finally substantiated by scientific means, such a view will allow an individual to see his place in the world with greater clarity
how he came from the world and how he may contribute to his fellows while he enjoys for a brief time the privilege of consciousness and communication.

Gerald Edelman

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#13. See, you have the choice we didn't. You wanna think about it though, you do, before you decide to throw your lot in with us. Cause it's not just about living in society's stitches, you know, the bits in between, the squats and secret places. It's about being Fixed.

Hal Duncan

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#14. A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for disease, new machines based on brain function, further insights into our nature and how we know.

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#15. The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

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#16. And through it all was the pervasive sound of money. Money lost. Money found. Spent. Earned. Exchanged. Gambled. Wasted. Tainted lucre, wealth corrupted by those who found success on the suffering of others.

S.G. Night

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#17. We're inquiring into the deepest nature of our constitutions: How we inherit from each other. How we can change. How our minds think. How our will is related to our thoughts. How our thoughts are related to our molecules.

Gerald Edelman

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#18. I want to beat the best out there and whoever is considered the top fighters of my era.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

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#19. Worrying is a necessary part of life.

Mary Tyler Moore

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#20. Sometimes you've gotta wreck the truck to get the insurance money to make the payment on the truck.

Larry The Cable Guy

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#21. Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

Gerald Edelman

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#22. In 1986, I read a remarkable article by Israel Rosenfield in The New York Review of Books in which he discussed the revolutionary work and views of Gerald M. Edelman. Edelman was nothing if not bold. We are at the beginning of

Oliver Sacks

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#23. I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it ... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#24. Why did God want us to remember these painful stories? I could only think of one reason. Having faith is more than just believing; it's about living with fear and self-doubt and working through those feelings until they bring some sort of answer.
-page 101, Chapter "Hajj

Zarqa Nawaz

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#25. Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process

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#26. Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.

Austan Goolsbee

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#27. Bad spelling can be lethal.

Terry Pratchett

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#28. An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.

Charlotte Bingham

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#29. I have to go," he said at last, getting to his feet. "I shouldn't even be here, but I cannot keep my self away from you. I worry about you in every waking moment. I love you, Luce. So much it hurts.

Lauren Kate

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#30. The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra - you really need it. And so, we have very massive simulations in computers because the problem is, of course, very complex.

Gerald Edelman

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#31. Most theoretical work since the proposals of Hebb (1949) and Hayek (1952) has relied upon particular forms of dependent synaptic rules in which either pre- or postsynaptic change is contingent upon closely occurring events in both neurons taking part in the synapse.

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