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The life of a biological scientist in the United States is a life of discussion and debate—it is the Talmudic tradition writ large.
In Search of Memory (2006)
As knowledge advances and scientific disciplines change, so do the disciplines impinging on them.
Each sensory system first analyzes and deconstructs, then restructures the raw, incoming information to its own built-in connections and rules—shades of Immanuel Kant.
In Search of Memory (2006)
The function of the modern artist was not to convey beauty, but to convey new truths.
The Age of Insight (2012)
Libet could predict what a person would do before the person was actually aware of having decided to do it.
In Search of Memory (2006)
It spawned an ongoing pursuit to link these disciplines.
The Age of Insight (2012)
The intellectual life of turn-of-the-century Vienna is in my blood: my heart beats in three-quarter time.
The Age of Insight (2012)
My hope is that the difference in the three generations' attitudes may signal a lessening of anti-Semitism in Austria.
In Search of Memory (2006)
Nothing is more stimulating for self-education than working in a new area.
In Search of Memory (2006)
The same CREB switch is important for many forms of implicit memory in a variety of other species, from bees to mice to people.
In Search of Memory (2006)
The firing of individual nerve cells involved in perceptual and motor processing is modified by attention and decision making.
In Search of Memory (2006)
As astronomy and physics inspired the Enlightenment, so biology inspired Modernism.
The Age of Insight (2012)
Reductionism can expand our vision and give us new insights into the nature and creation of art.
The Age of Insight (2012)
One of the characteristic features of Viennese life at this time was the continual, easy interaction of artists, writers, and thinkers with scientists.
The Age of Insight (2012)
We now understand that every mental state and every mental disorder is a disorder of brain function. Treatments work by altering the structure and function of the brain.
In Search of Memory (2006)
What biological processes enable me to review my own history with such emotional vividness?
In Search of Memory (2006)
I continue to explore the science in which I work almost like a child, with naïve joy, curiosity, and amazement.
In Search of Memory (2006)
The history of Austrian culture and scholarship in the modern era largely paralleled the history of Austrian Jewry.
In Search of Memory (2006)
Exceptionally good memory exhibited by some people may stem from genetic differences in CREB-2 that limit the activity of this repressor protein in relation to CREB-1.
In Search of Memory (2006)
Science may explain aspects of art but it will not replace the inspiration that art evokes...
The Age of Insight (2012)