459 Quotes About Neuroscience

A belief has no relation to the truth, nevertheless it is a quintessential part of human existence.

From the wheel to the steel - from papyrus to kindle - from churchbell to doorbell - from holy books to comic books - from monotheism to secularism - from fundamentalism to humanism - from steam engine to jet engine - from cave painting to apple pencil - from antibiotics to antipsychotics - from embroidery to surgery - from moving pics to netflix - every single feat that we can think of, good or bad, is born of the neurons. In short, neurons can make the world or break the world.

There are two horses inside the human mind - the horse of good and the horse of evil. Each horse pulls the human towards their own inclinations. If the horse of evil is fed, then evil reigns over the mind, whereas if the horse of good is fed, then goodness prevails.

Our inability to understand our own minds is the price we pay for the ability to question it in the first place.

Back in that first lesson with Clive, I was told by my professor that 'If the brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.

neuroscience can be seen as offering metaphors that point in a general direction, but don't exactly match anyone's individual experience.

Curiously, our first-person point of view of our own minds is not so different from our second-person point of view of other's minds: we don't see, or hear, or feel, the complicated neural machinery churning away in our brains but have to settle for an interpreted, digested version, a user-illusion that is so familiar to us that we take it not just for reality but also for the most indubitable and intimately known reality of all.

If you have to boil this book down to a single phrase, it would be "it's complicated.

With the rise of social media, the level of empathy among the kids has diminished greatly, and if this continues due to our indifference, then I'm afraid, we'll be giving rise to a planet full of sociopaths.