Simon Baron-Cohen Quotes

I guess different brains work in different ways.

The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

Every one of them is different. In fact, brains are like faces in that no two are ever alike.

If I were put into a college lecture hall right now and told to pay attention for 45 minutes, it would be physically impossible for me to do. I'm one of those people who believe that ADD is a gift. It's tough to manage, but if you can harness it you can do great things.

Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.

Often autism is portrayed in the media as a very negative condition, as something that prevents somebody from communicating or from socializing or from being able to have any kind of normal, happy life.

Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.

Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.

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.

I have friends struggling with autism, juvenile diabetes.

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.

I'm pretty convinced there's a chemical reality to who I am, regarding my brain, that makes me kind of a strange guy.

Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

I have a long-standing relationship with Autism Speaks. I've been supporting them for many, many years now.

I'm a human being, I'm not a machine. I'm 72. I'm dyslexic.

A lady emailed me that her child had been diagnosed with autism and that hearing my material on the subject had helped her. To me, it just means that I'm making the right decision in talking about this.

Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.

X-rays revealed that some people were born without a corpus callosum, and they seemed just fine.

With Tourette's, there's this element of vulnerability and compassion and empathy that you innately possess because of the affliction.

I've seen a shift in general about the literacy of the public to what Tourette's is. And that's a testament to local kids and parents having the courage to share their experience.

Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.