Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Quotes by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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