Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quotes

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

I find the function of the brain incredibly fascinating, and it's like trying to crack the toughest, most complicated problem there is.

When we talk about the brain, it is anything but unidimensional or simplistic or reductionistic.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.

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

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.

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

I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.

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.

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.

As a programmer, you're working with very simple structures compared to the brain. So I was always fascinated by how the brain works.

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

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

The brain sure as hell doesn't work by somebody programming in rules.

It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.

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

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

We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.