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Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quotes

Indian - Scientist | 1951 -

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Politics War Brain Remember Human

We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Time Fly Think Feel Wings You

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

World Ability Take Us Seems Our

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Brain Thinking Interesting You More

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Culture Without Mythology Really

Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Great Culture Language Being Human

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Facts Statistics Real Mortality Knew

You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Work Nature Confidence Arrogance You

The brain abhors discrepancies.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Alone Experience Self You Body Now

Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Hope I Am Mind Brain Questions Find

When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you wouldn't have different artistic styles - but it doesn't follow that art is completely idiosyncratic and arbitrary, either, or that there are no universal laws.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Art Culture I Am Speak You Follow

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