Latest Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quotes from Interviews

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• A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Genius, Reach Out

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Art, Stars, Thinking

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• Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Brain, Curiosity, Path

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• In the fetus, or a really young child, all the different brain areas are connected to each other, diffusely. And as the brain develops, the excess connections are turned off, so you get very specialized areas. So most people have really specialized talents. What happens in creative people is this pooling doesn't take place.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Children, People, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Art, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com