Neuroscience

🇫🇷Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Philosophy

Enlightenment

1709–1751

"magination is the soul, since it plays all the roles of the soul."

🇨🇦Geoffrey Hinton

Science

b. 1947

"I think political systems will use it to terrorize people."

🇺🇸Robert Sapolsky

Science

b. 1957

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

🇮🇹Valentino Braitenberg

Literature

1926–2011

"sketch a few facts about animal brains that have inspired some of the properties of our vehicles, and their behavior will then seem less gratuitous than it may have seemed up to this poin.t"

🇬🇧Francis Crick

Literature

1916–2004

"Both of us had decided, quite independently of each other, that the central problem in molecular biology was the chemical structure of the gene."

🇵🇹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."

🇺🇸Jill Bolte Taylor

Science

b. 1959

"Who are we? We are the life force power of the universe."