British Neuroscientist Quotes

Francis Crick

Colin Blakemore

Vision is the process of discovering from images what is present in the world, and where it is.

Nowadays most people know what DNA is, or if they don't know it must be a dirty word, like "chemical" or "synthetic."

If the cells and fibres in one human brain were all stretched out end to end, they would certainly reach to the moon and back. Yet the fact that they are not arranged end to end enabled man to go there himself. The astonishing tangle within our heads makes us what we are.

Colin Blakemore

The study of the causes of things must be preceded by the study of things caused.

John Hughlings Jackson

Unhappily for the physiologist, the subjects of the principal department of his science, that of animal physiology, are sentient beings; and every experiment, every new or unusual situation of such a being, is necessarily attended by pain or suffering of a bodily or mental kind.

Marshall Hall (physiologist)

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

Richard G. Morris