Allen C. Guelzo Quotes

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

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 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.

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

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

The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is.

To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes.

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.

Consciousness is the smallest player in the operations of the brain.

Minds are simply what brains do.

My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more.

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

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.

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.

There are still so many questions to answer about the workings of the human body and, most mysterious of all, it is influenced by our state of mind.

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.

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

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

I really enjoyed my degree, for me it was the best course you can do. To be able to study the brain and nervous system and the mind with a scientific approach is just incredible! Its philosophical, psychological and biological, three very interesting areas to me.

I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain.

To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.

Your brain is so lovely and so willing to please. It wants to help so much.

I am completely of the school that mind is entirely the manifestation of brain. So when there's a change in mind, there's got to be a neurobiological underpinning.