Richard P. Feynman Quotes

The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.

I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.

I've been around a long time, and I've been interested in memory for a long time. And one of my earlier interests in molecular biology of memory led me to define the switch that converts short term to long term memory.

While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.

Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup. New experiences just don't register in the same way or with the same impact. I could be shooting heroin with the Princess of Wales, naked in a crashing jet, and the experience still couldn't compare to the time the cops chased us after we threw the Taylors' patio furniture into their pool in eleventh grade.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.

People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.

All of that is constantly operating when you not only learn, but when you recall. But as you recall in a different light, the weights with which something is more probably going to be or not recalled on the next instance, are going to be changed. So you're constantly changing the way, for instance, synapses are going to fire very easily or not so easily.

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.

I have found that all of my memories seem to need a place and that a good part of what we think of as explicit memory has to do with location.

I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.

One definitely wants to have a functioning hippocampus. It's all about learning and memory, the part blown out of the water by Alzheimer's disease. It's also the part that is most vulnerable to the effects of stress.

The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

Memory feeds imagination.

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

Memory changes as a person matures.

Memory. My poison, my food.

Memory - the very skin of life.

La memoria no guarda películas, guarda fotografías.