It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality..

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress..

Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself..

I don't think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. It's a parallel, not a subs….

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing..

I have on the one hand a hatred and on the other a yearning for Vienna. I left when I was nine years old because I was Jewish. And even before 1938, ….

I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged..

I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be a….

Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life..

The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall its millions of individual ne….

One of the wonderful things about Internet is its like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life..

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these compon….

The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotion….

Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives..

I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture that Vienna represents. What really ca….

Vienna is relatively small. And it had wonderful salons, opportunities for people to get together. There was a lot of interaction between scientists ….

Has it ever struck you ... that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going? It’s rea….

There are cells in the brain that respond to faces. This is one of the reasons that I deal with portraiture. We can learn a lot about our perception ….

The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near un….

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity..

There was an idea that God created man different from other animals, because man was rational and animals had drives and instincts. That idea of a ra….