Keith Barry Quotes

I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.

I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop, after all, with the brain? How does it function? What are its limits? The work seems unending.

I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.

I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime.

People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.

Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.

This is what I do. I look at brains. I'm fascinated by it. I can spend hours doing it. In fact, if I want to relax, that's one way I can relax.

One has to understand the functioning of the normal brain before studying the badly malfunctioning brain.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology.

I really enjoyed my degree, for me it was the best course you can do. To be able to study the brain and nervous system and the mind with a scientific approach is just incredible! Its philosophical, psychological and biological, three very interesting areas to me.

I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly.

I'm a professor of neuroscience at Stanford University, and I'm kind of half-neurobiologist, half-primatologist.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

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.

No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious.

The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.

In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.

The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.

I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.

I'm tremendously optimistic about the future of my discipline, yet understanding the brain is so difficult that we neuroscientists need help.