Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.

- Patricia Churchland

If you want to understand the nature of something, to find out the truth, that is one thing. If you want to play semantics, make up wild thought 'exp…

- Patricia Churchland

Remember, in the heyday of vitalism, people said that when all the data are in about cells and how they work, we will still know nothing about the li…

- Patricia Churchland

Eventually I realized that for contemporary philosophers conceptual analysis per se was an end in itself. For some, it was somehow supposed to lead t…

- Patricia Churchland

It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything else in a few synaptic s…

- Patricia Churchland

Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software, not the hardware, increasing…

- Patricia Churchland

In all probability, mental states are processes and activities of the brain. Exactly what activities, and exactly at what level of description, remai…

- Patricia Churchland

If you give up because you announce the phenomenon cannot be explained, you are missing out.

- Patricia Churchland

When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.

- Patricia Churchland