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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

Topics: After Between Decided Harvard Having Historian Initially Intellectual Junior Late Medical Medical School School Senior Senior Year Somewhere Very Wanted Year

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I found working in the lab is so completely different than reading a textbook about it. You know, you're planning strategies; you're working with your own hands. There's essential satisfaction in running experiments.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: About Different Essential Experiments Found Hands Know Lab Own Planning Reading Running Satisfaction Strategies Textbook Than Working You Your

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A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Anxiety Both Brain Brought Feels Fully Grasp Like May Mind Nature Necessary Painting Perspectives Rarely Really Reveal Reveals Scan Signs State Together

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One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But it is equally conceivable that the exchange would be useful for the beholders of art, for people who enjoy art, for historians, and for the artists themselves.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Art Artists Aware Becomes Biology Brain Challenges Emotion Enjoy Equally Exchange Experience Historians How People Perception Themselves Ultimate Understand Useful Who Would

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I would not necessarily say that scientists and artists need to collaborate with one another, but it would be helpful for them to talk to one another to, perhaps, give rise to specific ideas that may or may not be carried out together.

~Eric Kandel

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One can, in principle, outline sort of a set of neural circuits that are critically involved and even identify disorders that affect different components of that neural circuit and see what happens if you knock out, for example, inability to recognize faces, how it affects your response to portraiture.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Affect Affects Circuit Components Critically Different Disorders Even Example Faces For Example Happens How Identify Inability Involved Knock Out Outline Principle Recognize Response See Set Sort You Your

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One of the wonderful things about Internet is it's like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: About Brings Different Intellectual Internet Life Like People Salon Things Together Walks Wonderful Wonderful Things

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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

Topics: Art Color Components Does Each Light New New Way Our Perception Perspective Science See Us Way

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Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt do, the most essential, even spiritual, ideas of their art.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Ad Art Artists Convey Essential Even Expression Ideas Indeed Intentionally Limited Mark Modern Most Particularly Scope Spiritual Vocabulary

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Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function of the scientist was to figure out the mathematical rules whereby the universe was created.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Created Enlightenment Ever Figure Function God Living Mathematical Mathematician Out People Rational Rules Scientist Since Thought Universe Were Whereby

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: November 7th, 1929

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