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My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come to life with their deeper significance. The current generation is missing out on this.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
About
Come
Could
Current
Deeper
Generation
Knowledgeable
Life
Make
Metaphysical
Missing
Mother
Mythology
Nuances
Out
Religious
Scriptures
She
Significance
Story
Tell
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My views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist - the minute you try to mingle God and science, you get into trouble. Metaphysics has its place, and science has its place; don't mix the two.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Confused
Get
God
Individual
Metaphysics
Mingle
Minute
Mix
Ought
Place
Science
Scientist
Trouble
Try
Two
Views
You
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Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Ability
Around
Effortless
Granted
Our
Perceive
Seems
Take
Tend
Us
World
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People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Answer
Anyone
Arises
Ask
Brain
Call
Consciousness
Everything
Got
How
Human
Human Nature
Interested
Nature
Often
People
Rhetorical
You
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Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Brain
Colonialism
Human
Human Brain
Imperialism
Originate
Politics
Remember
War
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Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Affair
Elusive
Game
Like
Love
Love Affair
Mistress
Nature
Part
Romantic
Romantic Love
Science
Turbulence
Turns
Twists
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The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Adage
Brain
Fact
Fiction
Seems
Stranger
Than
True
Workings
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The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and it's only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Another
Becomes
Becoming
Before
Between
Blurred
Boundary
Branch
Increasingly
Just
Matter
Only
Psychiatry
Time
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Abhors
Brain
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The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Exists
Fact
Hype
Important
Prove
Something
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The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Cease
Creative
Minute
Outside
Pressure
Succumb
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Angels
Ape
Beasts
Bodies
Craving
Feel
Fly
Inside
Like
Merely
Odd
Off
Our
Predicament
Really
Sophisticated
Spread
Think
Time
Trapped
Trying
Very
Wings
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When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you wouldn't have different artistic styles - but it doesn't follow that art is completely idiosyncratic and arbitrary, either, or that there are no universal laws.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Am
Arbitrary
Art
Artistic
Culture
Denying
Different
Either
Enormous
Follow
I Am
Laws
Obviously
Otherwise
Played
Plays
Role
Speak
Styles
Tremendous
Universal
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Although
Art
Call
Come
Distort
Image
Just
La
Many
People
Precisely
Randomly
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You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Arrogance
Confidence
Cozy
Daring
Even
Fine
Human
Human Nature
Intellectual
Lack
Many
Nature
Need
Researchers
Secure
Touch
Tremendous
Very
Want
Work
You
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Civilisation
Culture
Mythology
Really
Without
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Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Ape
Ask
Being
Being Human
Celebrated
Civilisation
Culture
Different
Great
How
Human
Language
Part
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Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Everyone
Idea
Important
Knows
Metaphors
No Idea
Why
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I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort of thing so I became quite comfortable being by myself, exploring. The world was my private playground, and in it, I was supreme. Darwin, Faraday, Huxley and other great scientists were my companions.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Became
Being
Comfortable
Companions
Darwin
Exploring
Friends
Good
Great
Had
Isolated
Kid
Myself
Other
Playground
Private
Quite
Scientists
Socially
Sort
Sports
Supreme
Thing
Very
Were
World
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If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
About
Alone
Anchored
Anything
Body
Else
Experience
Here
Now
Nowhere
Own
Person
Self
Sure
Which
You
Your
Yours
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