The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself.

- Colin Blakemore

I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional evolution. W…

- Colin Blakemore

If the cells and fibres in one human brain were all stretched out end to end, they would certainly reach to the moon and back. Yet the fact that they…

- Colin Blakemore

The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create…

- Colin Blakemore

[monkeys] are used only when no other species and no alternatice approach can provide the answers to questions about such conditions as Alzhemers, st…

- Colin Blakemore

We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for improving human health

- Colin Blakemore