459 Quotes About Neuroscience

Religion is not a book, it is a neurological sentiment.

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

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.

...education is the ability to retrieve information at will and analyze it. But you can't have higher-level learning- you can't analyze-without retrieving information.' And you can't retrieve information without putting the information in there in the first place. The dichotomy between "learning" and "memorizing" is false, Matthews contends. You can't learn without memorizing, and if done right, you can't memorize without learning.

Find Meaning, Find Yourself.

Thus, the "memories" that people reported contained little information about the event they were trying to recall (the speaker's tone of voice) but were greatly influenced by the properties of the retrieval cue that we gave them (the positive or negative facial expression).

Our insecurities drive us. Our fears control us. We try to hide the first and deny the second and it is exhausting us.

Biologically speaking, you are the child of Mother Nature, and neurologically speaking, you are the heirs of immortal bliss.

Our capacities of humanity may not be as powerful as our innate primitiveness, but with each act of that humanity in our daily walks of life we make those capacities stronger, thus heading towards a future where those capacities of humanity will indeed be more powerful than our primitiveness.