Susumu Tonegawa Quotes
The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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I've always been fascinated by the brain. I wrote a lot about brain-tech in my first non-fiction book, 'More Than Human.' So when I decided to write science fiction, that was the technology I gravitated towards.
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You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
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So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of digging, then piecing together details like a puzzle.
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I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.
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Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.
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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.
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Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.
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Mimicking the intricacies of the human brain, a neuro-inspired computer would work in a fashion similar to the way neurons and synapses communicate. It could potentially learn or develop memory.
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Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.
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I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
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Google is not a synonym for research.
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Brain damage ever since the day I was born, drugs is what they used to say I was on. They say I never knew which way I was goin'.
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But how much are the delicate convolutions of the brain influenced by the digestive apparatus? When the mal de mere seizes me I, Hercule Poirot, am a creature with no grey cells, no order, no method - a mere member of the human race somewhere below average intelligence!
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You borrow my brain for 5 seconds, and just be like 'Dude, can't handle it, unplug this bastard', because it fires in a way that is, I don't know, maybe not from this particular terrestrial realm.
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A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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If I get writer's block - this is going to sound funny - I take a shower. Something about the water feels like I'm cleaning my brain as well as my body.
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Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.
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Scarily, football helmets, which do a fine job of protecting against scalp laceration and skull fracture, do little to prevent concussions and may even exacerbate them, since even as the brain is rattling around inside the skull, the head is rattling around inside the helmet.
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Our brain, our body, craves fat. We cannot help it. That's why a kid will eat a hot dog quicker than a piece of broccoli.
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When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.
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The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.
