Antonio Damasio Quotes

We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.

The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbour a nonphysical mind.

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.

There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts assembled by science so far allow to state, as I said before, that the great regions of the mind correspond to the great regions of the brain.

The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles.

I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.

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

I do what I do merrily out of curiosity because I want to know how the brain works. That will get me up early in the morning and keep me going all day long.

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

I became really interested in the study of consciousness.

I've always loved science, as far back as I can remember. I was very, very curious about how everything worked: the world, the physical universe, chemistry, law. So it was only natural to be curious about how our mind works.

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

I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.

Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.

Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century.

The brain is one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.

I've always had this fascination with the brain. I'm not really much of a religious person, but like anybody, you are at least fascinated by what some call a soul - what I would call the brain - and who we are and how we work.

The brain is a body part too; we just know less about it.

Think of all the nonsense you had to learn in psychology courses. None of which was testable. None of which was measurable. We had behaviorism, Freudian psychology, all of these theories that you learn in psychology. Totally untestable. Now, we can test it, because physics allows us to calculate energy flows in the brain.

the brain, the mind, and all the things that happen inside it, it's a very erogenous zone.

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations

One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before the study of the higher parts of the brain, the organ of the most complicated relations of the animal to the external world. And it seems, and not without reason, that now is the really critical moment for natural science; for the brain, in its highest complexity-the human brain-which created and creates natural science, itself becomes the object of this science.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.