Colin Blakemore quotes
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“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. We shouldn't be complacent in thinking that we can predict the results.”
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“The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself.”
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“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 are not arranged end to end enabled man to go there himself. The astonishing tangle within our heads makes us what we are.”
-- Colin BlakemoreSource : "Mechanics of the Mind". Book by Colin Blakemore, 1977.
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“The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create objects out of images(symbols)... The artist, like the eye, must provide true images and the clues of distance to tell his magic lies.”
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“[monkeys] are used only when no other species and no alternatice approach can provide the answers to questions about such conditions as Alzhemers, stroke, Parkinson's, spinal injury, hormone disorders, and vaccines for HIV”
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“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
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Source : A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com
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Source : Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2009.
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“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
Source : Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”
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“Do not be fooled by your youthful appearance for very soon it would be taken away from you.”
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“Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”
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