4 Quotes by Colin Blakemore

The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself.

If the cells and fibres in one human brain were all stretched out end to end, they would certainly reach to the moon and back. Yet the fact that they are not arranged end to end enabled man to go there himself. The astonishing tangle within our heads makes us what we are.

I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional evolution. We shouldn’t be complacent in thinking that we can predict the results.

We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for improving human health.