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In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind the evidence that this organ contains in some recorded form the basis of one's whole conscious life. It contains the record of all our aims and ambitions and is essential for the experience of all pleasures and pains, all loves and hates.

John Zachary Young

What would be the use of a neuroscience that cannot tell us anything about love?

John Zachary Young

A marine protozoan is an aqueous salty system in an aqueous salty medium, but a man is an aqueous salty system in a medium in which there is but little water and most of that poor in salts.

John Zachary Young

One of the characteristics of scientists and their work, curiously enough, is a certain confusion, almost a muddle. This may seem strange if you have come to think of science with a big S as being all clearness and light.

John Zachary Young

John Zachary Young

John Zachary Young

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Born: March 18, 1907

Died: July 4, 1997 (aged 90)

Bio: John Zachary Young, generally known as "JZ" or "JZY", was an English zoologist and neurophysiologist, described as "one of the most influential biologists of the 20th century."

Known for:

The Life of Vertebrates (1950)
Doubt and certainty in science (1951)
The memory system of the brain (1966)
The Brains and Lives of Cephalopods
Philosophy and the brain (1987)

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