Top 7 Gerald Edelman Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.”

— Gerald Edelman

2. “Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It’s very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.”

— Gerald Edelman

3. “Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan.”

— Gerald Edelman

4. “Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatable, ever – not with identical twins, not even with conjoined twins.”

— Gerald Edelman

5. “A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for disease, new machines based on brain function, further insights into our nature and how we know.”

— Gerald Edelman

6. “Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process.”

— Gerald Edelman

7. “We’re inquiring into the deepest nature of our constitutions: How we inherit from each other. How we can change. How our minds think. How our will is related to our thoughts. How our thoughts are related to our molecules.”

— Gerald Edelman

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