Ian Hacking Quotes

Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.

I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.

I found myself fascinated by neuroscience, attended a monthly lecture on brain science at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and was invited to become a member of a discussion group devoted to a new field: neuropsychoanalysis.

I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.

I'm tremendously optimistic about the future of my discipline, yet understanding the brain is so difficult that we neuroscientists need help.

To find better means of fixing the brain, we first need to achieve something more fundamental. We must understand how it works.

I was interested in big unknowns, and the brain is one of the biggest, so building tools that allow us to regard the brain as a big electrical circuit appealed to me.

I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.

The brain is one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.

I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have to incorporate the deepest insights of biologists, nerve scientists, psychologists, physiologists, linguists, social scientists, and even philosophers.

A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.

The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.

I started working with brain sensing tech in labs over a decade ago and was immediately fascinated by the potential to help people peer into the workings and behaviors of their own minds.

I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop, after all, with the brain? How does it function? What are its limits? The work seems unending.

I think neuroscience is obviously very esoteric, but I think there are aspects of it that can absolutely be brought down to the level of an interested 11-, 12-, 13-year-old easily.

People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.

Scientists have made extraordinary advances in understanding the brain and its disorders.

As someone who was basically a software engineer for many years, I became fascinated with how the brain functions and is put together and works in such a different fashion than computers do.

I first got interested in the brain through computers.

As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.

Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.