New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avo…

- Robert E. Ornstein

Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head.

- Robert E. Ornstein

Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory of a heliocentric…

- Robert E. Ornstein

When the 'weaker' of the two brains (right and left) is stimulated and encouraged to work in cooperation with the stronger side, the end result is a …

- Robert E. Ornstein

If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.

- Robert E. Ornstein

Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.

- Robert E. Ornstein

We have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social,…

- Robert E. Ornstein

To keep your resolve, surround yourself with those who want you to succeed. The brain cannot do its job of protecting the body without contact with o…

- Robert E. Ornstein

We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them.

- Robert E. Ornstein