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Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Always Date Day Fascinated First First Love High High School Love Me Memory Recall School Think Will You Your

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The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Actions Biological Brain Capability Complex Constructs Controls Emotions Experience Immense Organ Our Possessing Sensory Thoughts

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Rather than studying the most complex form of memory in a very complicated animal, we had to take the most simple form - an implicit form of memory - in a very simple animal. So I began to look around for very simple animals. And I focused in on the marine snail Aplysia.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Animal Animals Around Began Complex Complicated Focused Form Had Implicit Look Marine Memory Most Rather Simple Snail Studying Take Than Very

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The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Biology Bridges Concerned Experience Human Human Experience Humanities Meaning Meaning Of Mind Natural Natural World Sciences World

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Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Back Circle Come Early Had Interests Life Lot Sort You

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Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of the human mind than had ever existed before.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Age Before Brought Complex Create Culture Emphasized Ever Existed Had Human Human Mind Insight Mind Modernism More New New Way Science Than Together Vienna View Way

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One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Biology Brain Challenges Conscious Emotion Empathy Perception Processing Ultimate Unconscious Understand

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I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at my lab looking at the data as they emerged day by day and discussing them with my students and postdoctoral fellows, I would gain a notion of what to do next.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Always Data Day Despondency Disappointment Discussing Emerged Exhaustion Fellows Found Gain Had Lab Literature Looking Many Moments Next Notion Reading Showing Showing Up Students Them Up Would

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There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact, there was little to suggest I would have an academic career.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Academic Become Biology Career Early Fact In Fact Indicate Interest Life Little Passion Suggest Would

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I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: After Apart Born Defeat Eleven Empire Fell Following November Vienna War World World War World War I Years I Was Born

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: November 7th, 1929

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