Neurobiology Quotes

#1. Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping a neurobiology of what makes us us.

Robert M. Sapolsky

#2. Our entire neurobiology acts as a giant input-output system, that receives information from the outside world, processes that information and makes a person react accordingly.

Abhijit Naskar

#3. Materialism and consumerism are merely emergent properties of our neurobiology given free rein in a free market.

Piers Steel

#4. Who you are depends on the sum total of your neurobiology.

David Eagleman

#5. There are really exciting things happening in genetic and neurobiology right now, and really looking at the ways in which different not just illnesses, but social conditions and social pressures can actually lead to actual brain changes.

Jonathan Michel Metzl

#6. The Qualia of God have paramount potential to alter your body chemistry through mind-body substrates of neurobiology.

Abhijit Naskar

#7. I like problems at the borders of disciplines. One of the reasons that neurobiology of learning and memory appeal to me so much was that I liked the idea of bringing biology and psychology together.

Eric Kandel

#8. What I am primarily is a neurogeneticist: I use genetics to study problems in neurobiology. The one problem I study primarily ... understanding of the sense of touch.

Martin Chalfie

#9. Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology.

Irwin Rose

#10. It may seem demeaning to the vanity of some individuals, but like all elements of the mind, God and all its correlated sensations of divinity are the majestic creations of neurobiology.

Abhijit Naskar

#11. In 1983, I became the Vincent and Brook Astor Professor at The Rockefeller University, where I established a new Laboratory of Neurobiology and continued my close collaboration with Charles Gilbert on the circuitry of primary visual cortex.

Torsten Wiesel

#12. A healthy PFC means a healthy cognitive grip over the world with very little elements of prejudice.

Abhijit Naskar

#13. Neuroscience is a science in its infancy.

Abhijit Naskar

#14. At first the brain weighs a potential partner, and if the partner fits our ancestral wish list, we get a spike in the release of sex chemicals that makes us dizzy with a rush of unavoidable infatuation. It's the first step down the primeval path of pair-bonding.

Abhijit Naskar

#15. I (God) am only a part of your own human consciousness, but a really bizarre part.

Abhijit Naskar

#16. Homosexuality is neither a sin, nor an anomaly or a disease. It is an evolutionary variation.

Abhijit Naskar

#17. Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control.

Abhijit Naskar

#18. True love is 20 percent care and 80 percent understanding.

Abhijit Naskar

#19. Abhijit Naskar is a self-trained scientist and thinker who discovers the paradigm shifting phenomena of the human mind.

Michael A. Persinger

#20. From all aspects of human perception, you truly are your brain.

Abhijit Naskar

#21. Sexual thoughts float through a man's brain many times a day, while on the contrary a woman has them only one to four times a day.

Abhijit Naskar

#22. Energy drinks like Red Bull may give you wings for the moment, but in time it takes away your basic physical and mental wellness and leads to disastrous psychiatric and physiological conditions.

Abhijit Naskar

#23. It's been long since thinking humanity has learnt that love is a majestic creation of the brain, yet that knowledge hasn't made love be deemed any less glorious. Then why should it threaten the religious believer to learn that divinity as well is a natural creation of the brain?

Abhijit Naskar

#24. There can never be a conflict between science and religion, once you understand the spiritual knack of the human brain circuits.

Abhijit Naskar

#25. You are your brain and your brain is you.

Abhijit Naskar

#26. In your daily life, you make dozens of chooses between an alternative with higher overall value and a more tempting but ultimately inferior option.

Abhijit Naskar

#27. The brain becomes illogical, in the throes of new romance.

Abhijit Naskar

#28. Freedom of will is born from the neurons. And that freedom allows you to sometimes make even the worst decisions ever in your life. And by making the worst decision, you simply learn what would be the better decision in future.

Abhijit Naskar

#29. Religious faith as a whole induces various health benefits in the general population through complex biological processes.

Abhijit Naskar

#30. A healthy brain leads to a healthy you.

Abhijit Naskar

#31. Neurons giveth and neurons taketh away.

Abhijit Naskar

#32. Even though it is common knowledge in our field of Neuroscience, I take immense pleasure every time I realize that our perception of the whole universe emerges from the activity of the little specks of jelly inside our skull.

Abhijit Naskar

#33. This one word "Love" has revolutionized the whole planet in an evolutionary way. Without this, none of us might have been born.

Abhijit Naskar

#34. in simple terms, what you perceive as real, is actually a neurological reconstruction or simulation of the actual real thing. It's not as simple as saying, we see as it is. Actually we do not ever see as it is.

Abhijit Naskar