Quotes by Neuroscientists - Page 2

You are your brain and your brain is you.
Abhijit Naskar
There's someone in my head, but it's not me."Pink FloydDavid Eagleman
David Eagleman
As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Meggie dropped to her knees, scrambling frantically to collect the miniature clothes before more damage was done them, then she began picking among the grass blades where she thought the pearls might have fallen. Her tears were blinding her, the grief in her heart new, for until now she had never owned anything worth grieving for.
Colleen McCullough
Education is the foundation of all human endeavors. It is the most noble of all the elements of human consciousness.
Abhijit Naskar
Scientific Religion is compatible with Science and in fact, they enrich each other. That's because scientific religion is simply the realization of divinity within one's heart. Therefore, Science and Scientific Religion smoothen each other's path of progress. While on the contrary, far from being compatible with Science, Theoretical Religion consistently tries to impede the development of human society. Moreover, being rigidly based on bookish doctrines, it keeps making efforts to drag the human society back to the Stone Age.I am afraid, if you don't act now, the relentless battle between Theoretical Religions will turn this beautiful planet which we call home, into a barren wasteland.
Abhijit Naskar
If you are a student of science and still haven't studied the works of Tesla, then your entire scientific education has been a waste of time. Because most of the technological wonders of 21st Century, which the modern humans are so proud of, are the product of one marvellous human mind - Nikola Tesla.
Abhijit Naskar
I am proud to say to you that, I am a scientist and I accept all religions to be biologically true and equal. My pursuit of understanding the human mind has taught me universal tolerance.
Abhijit Naskar
Philosophy lets you imagine the infinity, and Science makes you get there.
Abhijit Naskar
Only if the humans could make a little effort from the bottom of their heart to discard their affinity with religious dogmas, and embrace their inner divinity, the world would become a true peaceful paradise with zero conflicts on the basis of religious orientation.
Abhijit Naskar
Infinite patience, infinite purity and infinite perseverance are the key elements of achieving your desired goal.
Abhijit Naskar
I do not believe in a Science that cannot wipe the tears of a widow, or bring a piece of bread to the starving mouth of an orphan. However sophisticated may be the scientific achievements, however well-spun may be the philosophy behind them, I do not call them Science, unless they are put to practice in the pursuit of easing the sufferings of the human society.
Abhijit Naskar
If one does not have the basic conscientious capacity to refute the primitive textual verses of the scriptures that demand one to kill or torture another being for holding a different belief system than one's own, then that entity is no being of the civilized human society, it is merely a pest from the stone-age.
Abhijit Naskar
The solution you seek, can be found nowhere else but within you.
Abhijit Naskar
All religions are born from individual experiences of divine awakening, not from some books.
Abhijit Naskar
Why do women spend so much time in talking to their female peers? The answer can again be found in the process of biological evolution of the human mind. Just like the evolutionary expression of aggression in men, gossiping is an evolutionary feature of the female psychology. Women trade various secrets from their personal experiences through gossiping in order to create connection and intimacy with their female peers.
Abhijit Naskar
You the human are the highest temple of God. I would rather worship you, than worship any temple, image or book.
Abhijit Naskar
God heals as well as God kills.
Abhijit Naskar
Nanak wanted to preach people that God loves both the Hindus and the Muslims the same way. Believing in his spiritual encounter, he wanted to eliminate the distance between the Hindus and the Muslims by teaching the words of equality and One God. But just like usual, he ended up forming yet another religion which became more and more hardcore with its own rituals and regulations in the hands of the subsequent nine Gurus.
Abhijit Naskar
Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason.
Abhijit Naskar
It is necessary for the future scientists interested in the field of Neurotheology, to have a bit naïve approach towards the whole idea of God and religion beyond the conventional labels of religion and atheism.
Abhijit Naskar
The frog in the well knows nothing more grand than its own tiny well.
Abhijit Naskar
It's about religious acceptance, it's no longer about religious tolerance.
Abhijit Naskar
If you think of your own mother to be the only true mother in the world and thereby start belittling people from other mothers as bastards, that makes you a bigot and a germ on the face of earth. This is an unhealthy bias, even though in your personal mental universe it may provide you extreme comfort. This is exactly what we see in the religious fundamentalists.
Abhijit Naskar
The world does not need more pestilential misogynistic pricks to Christianize, Muslimize or basically dogmatize the society – the world needs passionate courageous souls to humanize the society.
Abhijit Naskar
Searching for truth without skepticism, is like having sex without a genital.
Abhijit Naskar
If a God tends to reinforce the prejudices in a society instead of diminishing them from the society, then such God is worse than Cancer.
Abhijit Naskar
You can tell a lot about the intellectual and moral progress of a nation’s citizens, by the quality and nature of the films they watch.
Abhijit Naskar
Forget organized religions. Forget scriptures. Forget Gods, Fathers, Sons and Spirits. Forget all dogmas taught by the representatives of theoretical religion, and then only you shall be able to visualize the true core of religion.
Abhijit Naskar
There is a difference between what you want, and what you need.
Abhijit Naskar
Real atheist is not the one that does not believe in an imaginary big monkey, but the one that gives the imagination more importance than the reality.
Abhijit Naskar
[Texting] discourages thoughtful discussion or any level of detail. And the addictive problems are compounded by texting's hyperimmediacy. E-mails take some time to work their way through the Internet, through switches and routers and servers, and they require that you take the step of explicitly opening them. Text messages magically appear on the screen of your phone and demand immediate attention from you. Add to that the social expectation that an unanswered text feels insulting to the sender, and you've got a recipe for addiction: You receive a text, and that activates your novelty centers. You respond and feel rewarded for having completed a task (even though that task was entirely unknown to you fifteen seconds earlier). Each of those delivers a shot of dopamine as your limbic system cries out "More! More! Give me more!
Daniel J. Levitin
Despite what appears to be a low risk of addiction in naïve, chronic pain patients, it is reasonable to ask how much harm is actually done to patients with chronic pain by withholding opiate analgesics.
Howard L. Fields
As Carl Jung put it, “In each of us there is another whom we do not know.” As Pink Floyd sang, “There’s someone in my head, but it’s not me.
David Eagleman
Perfection in anything is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.
Colleen McCullough
Practice creates more connections among the neurons, which push you a little further towards perfection.
Abhijit Naskar
It is better to die honorably and render yourself immortal than live to old age and fade to dust.
Livia Blackburne
Those who put their heart and soul into something bigger than themselves, never die from the psyche of humanity.
Abhijit Naskar
This one word “Love” has revolutionized the whole planet in an evolutionary way. Without this, none of us might have been born.
Abhijit Naskar
If to a person religion means reading books and obeying every single word from it without the slightest bit of reasoning, then such perception would only bring destruction upon the person and the world. Also there are people who use the words from those books to justify their own filthy actions. Let’s take a conservative Muslim, for example. Say, the conservative Muslim male Homo sapiens (I won’t call such creature a human, regardless of the religion, since his action here shows no sign of humanity) is found to be beating his wife. Now, if someone says to him “this is wrong”, he would naturally reply, “this is a divine thing to do, my book says so”. Now, if a Christian says “my book is older, so you should stop obeying your book and start obeying mine”, there will come the Buddhist, and say, “my book is much older still, obey mine”. Then will come the Jew, and say, “my book is even older, so just follow mine”. And in the end will come the Hindu and say “my books are the oldest of all, obey them”. Therefore referring to books will only make a mess of the human race and tear the species into pieces.
Abhijit Naskar
The book-learned preacher who carries the badge of authority, is by no means religious.
Abhijit Naskar
Every scripture, no matter how ancient, must go through rigorous human scrutiny.
Abhijit Naskar
Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to begin with. (Marathon runners are exceptions to this.)
Robert M. Sapolsky
Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of the internal rivals - is optimal for brains. ... Some balance of the emotional and rational systems is needed, and that balance may already be optimized by natural selection in human brains.
David Eagleman
And while a bald head and a looped ribbon were seen as badges of courage and hope, her reluctant vocabulary and vanishing memories advertised mental instability and impending insanity. Those with cancer could expect to be supported by their community. Alice expected to be an outcast.
Lisa Genova
A panic attack is pathological exaggeration of the body’s normal response to fear, stress or excitement.
Abhijit Naskar
Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation.
Abhijit Naskar
The intellectual scholars who keep saying 'this is wrong' and 'that is wrong', are neither scholars nor intellectuals. In reality, they are more ignorant than the layman.
Abhijit Naskar
Stop looking at people's religions. Try to look at the goodness within them.
Abhijit Naskar
Contentment is the greatest wealth.
Abhijit Naskar
Qualia of God refers to the private subjective experience or conception of God in people.
Abhijit Naskar
Religion comes not where reign fundamentalism and authoritarianism.
Abhijit Naskar
Beauty lies in simplicity.
Abhijit Naskar
Science is never rigid, it is flexible. It can bend towards any direction that ultimately tends to do good to humanity. Religion must learn the same. And the moment any religion learns that, it would become the most scientific religion in the world.
Abhijit Naskar
You are the Jehovah of goodness, Allah of brotherhood, Buddha of reasoning and Krishna of love. And that’s more than enough gods, that the world will ever need.
Abhijit Naskar
Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call “Nationalist Fundamentalism”, which is as dangerous as “Religious Fundamentalism”.
Abhijit Naskar
God doesn’t help anyone, humans do.
Abhijit Naskar
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
Entertain, but also, give the viewer something to think about.
Abhijit Naskar
Healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction.
Abhijit Naskar