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Gone are the days when scientists believed one hormone was made by one gland. Insulin, for example... is made in other surprising places, like the brain, and even by tiny one-cell organisms without a pancreas.

— Richard Bergland The Fabric of Mind (1985)

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Whatever the cerebellum is doing, it’s doing a lot of it.

It is the synchrony, the synergism and the spatial juxtaposition of whirling hormonal forces that give life to the human soul.

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

Amending your own mind is very, very satisfying… amending other people's minds is a fruitless, unsatisfying effort.

Doubtless the study of brain electricity helped in understanding the internal circuits of the brain, but it solved few problems of brain disease.

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

Genetic engineers are powerless in all of this without some cooperative effort from people working in allied fields.

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