Eric Kandel - History Quotes

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The Vienna School of Art History, influenced in part by Sigmund Freud's psychological work, began to develop a science-based psychology of art that was initially focused on the beholder. Today, the new science of mind has... again focused on the beholder.

Eric Kandel

What biological processes enable me to review my own history with such emotional vividness?

Eric Kandel

The history of Austrian culture and scholarship in the modern era largely paralleled the history of Austrian Jewry.

Eric Kandel

The Age of Insight is a product of my... fascination with the intellectual history of Vienna from 1890 to 1918, as well as my interest in Austrian modernist art, psychoanalysis, art history, and the brain science that is my life's work.... I examine the ongoing dialogue between art and science that had its origins in fin-de-siècle Vienna and document its three major phases.

Eric Kandel

Having been trained in history and the humanities, where one learns early on how depressing life can be, I am delighted to have ultimately switched to biology, where a delusional optimism still abounds.

Eric Kandel