Neuroscience Philosophy Quotes

#1. Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

Salman Rushdie

#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. 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

#4. If you're getting ready to do a really emotional scene then, right before it, you're probably not going to be outside playing basketball.

Emilie De Ravin

#5. To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Henri Bergson

#6. My philosophy is really based on humility. I don't think we know enough to fix either diagnostics or therapeutics. The future of psychiatry is clinical neuroscience, based on a much deeper understanding of the brain.

Thomas R. Insel

#7. That was the way Dean found me when he finally decided I was worth saving.

Jack Kerouac

#8. And you're disappointed in the story. I know you wanted a love story.

Paul Park

#9. Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.

Steve Ballmer

#10. I am proud to say to you that, I am a scientist and I accept all religions to be biologically true and equal. My pursuit of understanding the human mind has taught me universal tolerance.

Abhijit Naskar

#11. When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee.

Israel Albert Horowitz

#12. Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans.

Abhijit Naskar

#13. . . . dreams are your heart's playground.

Delilah S. Dawson

#14. The purpose of Neurotheology shall be to ease human sufferings with a deeper understanding of the neurobiological substrates of spirituality and divinity.

Abhijit Naskar

#15. When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago.

Stuart J. Russell

#16. [T]he cascade of discoveries in neuroscience and genetics has created an image of individuals as automata, slaves to their genes or neurotransmitters, with no more free will than a child's windup toy.

Jeffrey M. Schwartz

#17. Pathology can indeed cause experiences of the Kingdom of God, but not all God experiences are caused by pathology.

Abhijit Naskar

#18. Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

#19. In truth, there is no such thing as an "intuitive boundary" of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as brain-bound is not an intuition, but a prejudice.

Istvan Aranyosi

#20. Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.

Abhijit Naskar

#21. Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#22. To construct is the essence of vision. Dispense with
construction and you dispense with vision. Everything you experience by sight is your construction.

Donald D. Hoffman

#23. Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.

David J. Chalmers

#24. Although a lot of my work on the mind has been rather abstract and philosophical, I'm interested in psychology and neuroscience and I don't think there are any principled distinctions between the kind of knowledge we get from science and the knowledge we get from philosophy.

Tim Crane