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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.

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

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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

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People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

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The brain abhors discrepancies.

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Scientist

Born: Unknown

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