Eric Kandel Quotes

Memory is the basis of every journey.

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that was uncapturable except in thought. It was without satisfaction.

I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.

We all remember things, it's what we remember that determines how we live.

Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

I've been around a long time, and I've been interested in memory for a long time. And one of my earlier interests in molecular biology of memory led me to define the switch that converts short term to long term memory.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.

Memory feeds imagination.

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.

For as long as I can remember, I've had memories.

I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.

Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

To live (as I understand it) is to exist within a conception of time. But to remember is to vacate the very notion of time. Every memory, no matter how remote its subject, takes place 'Now,' at the moment it's called to the mind. The more something is recalled, the more the brain has a chance to refine the original experience. Because every memory is a re-creation, not a playback.

What business does memory have with time?

My memory is coming back. It is curious how it comes. Each day, a rush of pieces, loosely connected, unimportant bits, snake through me. They click, click, click into my brain, like links being snapped together. And then they are done. A small chain of memories that fill in one tiny part of my life. They come out of nowhere, and most are not important.

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.