Neurologist

Sigmund Freud

Psychology

1856–1939

"A woman is to soften but not weaken a man."

🇦🇹Viktor Frankl

Psychology

1905–1997

"There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life."

🇷🇺Ivan Pavlov

Medicine

1849–1936

"I was, I am and will remain the Russian, the son of the Motherland. Her life first of all I will be interested in. I will live with her interests. With her’s dignity I will strengthen mine."

🇺🇸Roger Wolcott Sperry

Science

1913–1994

"The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere."

🇬🇧Oliver Sacks

Science

1933–2015

"In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life."

🇺🇸Steven Novella

Science

b. 1964

"Even though I think they're probably usually wrong, minority opinions in science are very useful. It keeps the whole process honest ..."

🇦🇹Eric Kandel

Medicine

b. 1929

"Because we do not have a sensory organ dedicated to space, the representation of space is a quintessentially cognitive sensibility: it is the binding problem writ large."

🇺🇸Robert Sapolsky

Science

b. 1957

"From the very moment of your life, culture is leaving an imprint on who you are."

🇬🇧Charles Scott Sherrington

Science

1857–1952

"It is difficult to get a hearing from busy men for even a great new truth."

🇮🇳Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Science

b. 1951

"Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don't feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence."

🇬🇧Jonathan Miller

Entertainment

1934–2019

"Ever since the Reformation, there's a sense in which the road to atheism was paved not with science, but with religious intentions."

🇺🇸Rita Levi-Montalcini

Science

1909–2012

"She had this feeling for what was happening biologically. She was an intuitive observer, and she saw that something was making these nerve connections grow and was determined to find out what it was."

🇦🇺John Carew Eccles

Science

1903–1997

"Pratt, D.: John Eccles on Mind and Brain. A theosophical view."

🇪🇸Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Science

1852–1934

"Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain."

W. Ross Ashby

Science

1903–1972

"The concept of "variety" inseparable from that of "information."

"I don't want to give the impression that because of gender, I was oppressed. I was, but then I lent myself to it. I regret it, as it was a disservice to women. But I was too unaware for too long."

🇦🇹Viktor E. Frankl

Psychology

1905–1997

"We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies."

🇵🇹António Damásio

Psychology

b. 1944

"When you have an emotion you are recruiting a variety of mechanisms that came in the long history of evolution, long before emotions arose, and those mechanisms all had to do with how an organism manages its life."

🇬🇧William Grey Walter

Science

1910–1977

"Some of these patterns of performance were calculable, though only as types of behaviour, in advance; some were quite unforeseen."

"Growing old: the most common mitochondrial disease of all?"

🇺🇸Silas Weir Mitchell

Literature

1829–1914

"The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim's cheque-books."

"Value stock returns are impossible to estimate using the traditional methods, because most of the excessive return arises from the slow improvement in valuations that occurs as doggy stocks become less doggy over time."

🇬🇧Roger Bannister

Medicine

1929–2018

"We run, not only because we think it is doing us good, but … because it helps us to do other things better."

🇺🇸Rudolph E. Tanzi

Education

b. 1958

"Our choices from diet to outlook to emotional state directly alter our neural and gene activity at every moment."

🇺🇸Ralph Northam

Politics

b. 1959

"My wife says, "inappropriate circumstances."

🇦🇺Colleen McCullough

Medicine

1937–2015

"I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me."