Neurology

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."

🇦🇹Alfred Adler

Medicine

Neo-Freudianism

1870–1937

"Man knows much more than he understands."

🇺🇸Robert Sapolsky

Science

b. 1957

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

🇮🇳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."

W. Ross Ashby

Science

1903–1972

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

🇦🇹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."

🇬🇧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."

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

🇺🇸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 ..."