Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quotes

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Indian Scientist
Born: 1951
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Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
World Our Ability Perceive Seems Tend Take Around Effortless Us Granted
The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and it's only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Time Matter Before Increasingly Only Between Boundary Another Becomes Becoming Branch Just Psychiatry Blurred
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. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Time You Fly Trapped Think Our Inside About Angels Wings Beasts Merely Feel Like Sophisticated Spread Odd Off Very Trying Predicament Craving Ape Really Bodies
Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Politics War Remember Colonialism Imperialism Also Brain Human Human Brain Originate
When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you wouldn't have different artistic styles - but it doesn't follow that art is completely idiosyncratic and arbitrary, either, or that there are no universal laws. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Important Everyone No Idea Idea Knows Metaphors Why
The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
You Creative Pressure Minute Outside Cease Succumb
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. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Alone You Experience Own Else Anchored About Self Sure Person Anything Which Body Your Yours Now Nowhere Here
Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Hope Mind Three Philosophers Lofty India Find About Only Both Am Answers Been West Brain Questions Where Them Ask Asking Fascinating Eventually Millennia Here
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. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Art You People Randomly Distort Take Come Call Although La Precisely Just Where Many Image
I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort of thing so I became quite comfortable being by myself, exploring. The world was my private playground, and in it, I was supreme. Darwin, Faraday, Huxley and other great scientists were my companions. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Myself Good Great Sports World Other Kid Darwin Huxley Had Supreme Sort Became Comfortable Isolated Scientists Private Were Friends Very Quite Being Exploring Companions Thing Socially Playground
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. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Sometimes Somebody Biology Though Dividing Feel Boundaries Like Sciences Era Were Span Victorian Interests Many
The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Hype Important Something Fact Prove Exists
If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Statistics About Facts Knew Mortality Terrified Real

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