Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quotes

I've always had this fascination with the brain. I'm not really much of a religious person, but like anybody, you are at least fascinated by what some call a soul - what I would call the brain - and who we are and how we work.

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 was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear to me after a while that mental processes come from the brain, and in order to understand them, you need to be a biologist of the brain.

There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.

No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious.

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

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

The widespread assumption is that somehow, the brain produces the mind; somehow millions of neurons fire signals at one another create or produce consciousness... but we have no idea how or why this happens. I'm afraid that in many cases, people in the tech world fail to understand that.

I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

Brain research is the ultimate problem confronting man.

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

One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredome, that wrinkled wardrobe of selves stuffed into the skull like too many clothes into a gym bag.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

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

To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

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

I do what I do merrily out of curiosity because I want to know how the brain works. That will get me up early in the morning and keep me going all day long.

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

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.

I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.