Quotes by Neuroscientists

Searching for truth without skepticism, is like having sex without a genital.

A Film has the potential to kindle such a spark of inspiration in an individual that it can alter the course of human progress.

Abhijit Naskar

It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.

Abhijit Naskar

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

V.S. Ramachandran

Never question the conviction of a scientist, based on mere scriptures.

Abhijit Naskar

Humanism is not a single character. It is a magnificent blend of various emotional and behavioral traits that are unique to the human mind.

Abhijit Naskar

Let your child be the torch of truth and they shall shine over the entirety of the human society brightening even the darkest corners.

Abhijit Naskar

Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.

Abhijit Naskar

Plato, Socrates, Aristotle and many more great minds laid the groundwork for the development of modern science. Over the foundation of philosophy, history witnessed the daring ventures of human excellence by both philosophical and scientific geniuses, such as Leonardo-da-Vinci, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Bacon, Darwin, Newton and so on. And the chain of reaction they triggered with their extraordinarily abnormal thinking, given their surrounding ignorance and fundamentalism, resulted into the evolution of our modern science.

Abhijit Naskar

All knowledge that Science has acquired so far, has been through the concentration of the powers of the mind.

Abhijit Naskar

Every true scientist is a philosopher, but not every philosopher is a scientist.

Abhijit Naskar

All knowledge that Science has acquired so far, has been through the concentration of the powers of the mind.

Abhijit Naskar

In the pursuit of breaking free from all the shackles of man-made bondages, science is the most effective tool we have till this date.

Abhijit Naskar

It is all about the trade of ignorance. And India is such a bronze-age nation that is filled with these trades (astrology, palm reading, vastushashtra and others).

Abhijit Naskar

Changing the spelling of one's name to ensure success, performing rituals for good luck, wearing colored gem stones for success in business – all these fall into the same category of psychological reinforcement. Hence, emerged the blood-sucking professions of astrology, palmistry, vastushastra, numerology etc. The very existence of these fraudulent professions is predicated on the fear and anxiety of vulnerable masses. Thus, a person’s superstitious beliefs become the tool of exploitation in the hands of ruthless fraudsters.

Abhijit Naskar

There are more things in our biology that make us one, than there are to set us apart.

Abhijit Naskar

Perfection is not to be attained, but to be pursued infinitely.

Abhijit Naskar

All I want is to be at service of humanity, rather than being a teacher. I cannot teach anyone anything I can only make them think.

Abhijit Naskar

What I want from you comrade, what the world wants from you, O dearest, are the neurons of steel, within which dwells a mind of the same material of which the thunderbolt is made.

Abhijit Naskar

Sow the seeds of weakness and inferiority in the kids and they’ll grow up to be inferior, crawling, insignificant insects. Sow the seeds of courage and they’ll become brave-heart leaders who will one day change the course of human history.

Abhijit Naskar

Let them learn at school whatever they learn to pass the examinations, but at home let the education that you provide be the kind that widens their perceptions and takes away the germs of prejudices that infect them while they are out in the world.

Abhijit Naskar

Criticisms of a society filled with fools have no power in them to bother the sage that has emerged from the agonizing fire of misery.

Abhijit Naskar

Given the same honor and dignity as men, women can build a much better and more harmonious world.

Abhijit Naskar

Knowledge shall set the mind free.

Abhijit Naskar

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal