Eric Kandel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Has it ever struck you ... that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going? Itâ€™s really all memory ... except for each passing moment.
-- Eric Kandel

#Memories #Life Is #Moments
I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian.
-- Eric Kandel

#Senior #School #Years
One of the wonderful things about Internet is its like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life.
-- Eric Kandel

#People #Intellectual #Together
As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.
-- Eric Kandel

#Long #Progress #Periods
The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart.
-- Eric Kandel

#Heart #People #Understanding
In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.
-- Eric Kandel

#Art #Color #Light
Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.
-- Eric Kandel

#Circles #Life Is #Interest
The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall its millions of individual nerve cells to produce behaviour, and how are these cells influenced by the environment...? The last frontier of the biological sciences â€“ their ultimate challenge â€“ is to understand the biological basis of consciousness and the mental processes by which we perceive, act, learn, and remember.
-- Eric Kandel

#Cells #Challenges #Brain
Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing,
-- Eric Kandel

#Memories
It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.
-- Eric Kandel

#Individuality #Nervous #Units
The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions.
-- Eric Kandel

#Brain #Our Actions #Emotion

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