459 Quotes About Neuroscience

Letting go of ill will does not mean passivity, silence, or allowing yourself or others to be harmed. [...] There is plenty of room for speaking truth to power and effective action without succumbing to ill will. [...] In fact, with a clear mind and peaceful heart, your actions are likely to be more effective.

The self has no inherent, unconditional, absolute existence apart from the network of causes it arises from, in, and as.

Neuroscience is a science in its infancy.

To construct is the essence of vision. Dispense with construction and you dispense with vision. Everything you experience by sight is your construction.

Spirituality is to Religion, what Love is to Marriage. Spirituality is an emotional state of the mind, just like Love, while Religion on the other hand, is a social construct, quite like Marriage.

We are but a bunch of neurons.

Recuerdo a un neurocientífico del MIT que me mostró el vídeo de una neurona del hipocampo haciendo sinapsis. Me dijo: "Esto es un recuerdo".

Qué lejano, anticuado y erróneo ha quedado aquello de que "la letra con sangre entra". Esta expresión debería ser sustituida por "la letra con dopamina entra".

La corteza prefrontal se asemeja al director de una orquesta que toca una sinfonía: dirige la música que elegimos para nuestra vida.