Author: Eric Kandel

Quotes

I was reluctant to be critical of the United States because I thought the United States could do no wrong; that the government could not lie to its people.

I was reluctant to be critical of the United States because I thought the United States could do no wrong; that the government could not lie to its people.

- Eric Kandel

The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.

The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.

- Eric Kandel

Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.

Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.

- Eric Kandel

Nerve cells communicate with one another at specialized points called synapses. And these synapses are plastic - they can be modified by learning.

Nerve cells communicate with one another at specialized points called synapses. And these synapses are plastic - they can be modified by learning.

- Eric Kandel

The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience.

The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience.

- Eric Kandel

I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.

I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.

- Eric Kandel

My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the beginning of World War I when they were still very young.

My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the beginning of World War I when they were still very young.

- Eric Kandel

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

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

- Eric Kandel

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

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

- Eric Kandel

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