Torsten Wiesel Quotes

#1. Many men believe in the saying that educating women is like allowing the nose of the camel into the tent: eventually the beast will edge in and take up all the room inside.

Geraldine Brooks

#2. Well, you're real brave, real stupid, or real lucky.

S.E. Hinton

#3. In the early Sixties, having begun to describe the physiology of cells in the adult cat visual cortex, David Hubel and I decided to investigate how the highly specific response properties of cortical cells emerged during postnatal development.

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#4. 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.

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#5. Aside from my work, my interests lie in the arts and in world affairs.

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#6. I might then squeeze the juices of my thought more fully out of me

Dante Alighieri

#7. Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting to the core of the problem.

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#8. I cannot think of a greater symbol of human resistance and courage than our Nobel laureate colleague Andrei Sakharov.

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#9. Oh, no, I was afraid of that! I'd better go and hide.

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#10. Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do.

Patrick Rafter

#11. If your clothes are tight , you mean a man can hold tight on you , if they are lose you mean you can hold tight to a man

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#12. The eye and brain are not like a fax machine, nor are there little people looking at the images coming in.

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#13. After forty years in the lab, I was asked in 1991 to become president of The Rockefeller University. Unlike a working scientist, being president for seven years provided an opportunity to interact with scientists in many different fields and broadened my scope of the natural sciences.

Torsten Wiesel