"The Holy Grail of neuroscience has been to understand how and where information is encoded in the brain."

-- Thomas R. Insel

#Holy Grail Quotes #Brain Quotes #Information Quotes

“Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.”
“You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some attainment. Like most people who did not answer a particular calling from an early age, you placed work beside yourself; any occupation would fill up your day but not your heart. I liked that about you. I liked it enormously.”
“Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first.”
“For all the courage that we never had, I'm just about glad.”
“I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same. I have drunk at the clear and pure waters and my thirst was appeased. ...I have seen the Light. I have touched compassion which heals all sorrow and suffering; it is not for myself, but for the world. ...Love in all its glory has intoxicated my heart; my heart can never be closed. I have drunk at the fountain of Joy and eternal Beauty. I am God-intoxicated.”
“A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey wonâ€™t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine wonâ€™t go, there is no use beating it. You have to think and try till you find what is wrong. That is real education.”
“When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.”
“The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse. There is no certainty that God actually did grant man dominion over other creatures. What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he had usurped for himself over the cow and the horse.”

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