459 Quotes About Neuroscience

If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery.

Neurons giveth and neurons taketh away.

Past, present and future are in reality self spacing itself not to be by itself. The purpose of self is companionship, friendship, love; love so love.

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

We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world.

We navigate life by making decisions that maximize pleasure and/ or minimize pain.

To predict the impact of an advertisement or a product, based on neurological predispositions and real-time brain activities, is the purpose of the field of "Consumer Neuroscience" or in simple terms "Neuromarketing".

Everything a person is and everything he knows resides in the tangled thicket of his intertwined neurons. These fateful, tiny bridges number in the quadrillions, but they spring from just two sources: DNA and daily life. The genetic code calls some synapses into being, while experience engenders and modifies others.(148)

A life without having loved someone is a life never lived.