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Eric Kandel Quotes

born 1929 Austria

Austria
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The portraits of the Viennese modernists, with their conscious and dramatic attempts to depict their subject's inner feelings, represent an ideal example of how psychological and biological insights can enrich our relationship with art.

The Age of Insight (2012)

Jacques Monod... published a paper entitled "Genetic Regulatory Mechanisms in the Synthesis of Protein." Using bacteria as a model system, they made the remarkable discovery that genes can be regulated—that is, they can be switched on and off like a water faucet.

In Search of Memory (2006)

Even though I had long been taught that the genes of the brain are the governors of behavior, the absolute masters of our fate, our work showed that, in the brain as in bacteria, genes are also servants of the environment.

In Search of Memory (2006)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eric Kandel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.