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Top 15 V.S. Ramachandran Quotes (2025 Update)

V.S. Ramachandran Quote: “It’s as if each of us is hallucinating all the time and what we call perception involves merely selecting the one hallucination that best matches the current input.”

1. “It’s as if each of us is hallucinating all the time and what we call perception involves merely selecting the one hallucination that best matches the current input.”

— V.S. Ramachandran

V.S. Ramachandran Quote: “Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don’t feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence.”

2. “Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don’t feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence.”

— V.S. Ramachandran

V.S. Ramachandran Quote: “Homogeneity breeds weakness: theoretical blind spots, stale paradigms, an echo-chamber mentality, and cults of personality.”

3. “Homogeneity breeds weakness: theoretical blind spots, stale paradigms, an echo-chamber mentality, and cults of personality.”

— V.S. Ramachandran

V.S. Ramachandran Quote: “He had the arrogance of the believer, but none of the humility of the deeply religious.”

4. “He had the arrogance of the believer, but none of the humility of the deeply religious.”

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V.S. Ramachandran Quote: “Indeed, one could go so far as to say that humor helps as an effective antidote against a useless struggle against the ultimate danger: the ever-present fear of death in self-conscious beings like us.”

5. “Indeed, one could go so far as to say that humor helps as an effective antidote against a useless struggle against the ultimate danger: the ever-present fear of death in self-conscious beings like us.”

— V.S. Ramachandran

V.S. Ramachandran Quote: “How does language interact with thought? Does language enable us to think, or does thinking enable us to talk? Can we think in a sophisticated manner without silent internal speech? And lastly, how did this extraordinarily complex, multicomponent system originally come into existence in our hominin ancestors?”

6. “How does language interact with thought? Does language enable us to think, or does thinking enable us to talk? Can we think in a sophisticated manner without silent internal speech? And lastly, how did this extraordinarily complex, multicomponent system originally come into existence in our hominin ancestors?”

— V.S. Ramachandran

V.S. Ramachandran Quote: “With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, is the greatest mystery of all.”

7. “With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, is the greatest mystery of all.”

— V.S. Ramachandran

V.S. Ramachandran Quote: “Art can be thought of as a form of visual foreplay before the climax.”

8. “Art can be thought of as a form of visual foreplay before the climax.”

— V.S. Ramachandran

V.S. Ramachandran Quote: “So here is the greatest irony of all: that the self that almost by definition is entirely private is to significant extent a social construct.”

9. “So here is the greatest irony of all: that the self that almost by definition is entirely private is to significant extent a social construct.”

— V.S. Ramachandran

V.S. Ramachandran Quote: “How does language interact with thought? Does language enable us to think, or does thinking enable us to talk?”

10. “How does language interact with thought? Does language enable us to think, or does thinking enable us to talk?”

— V.S. Ramachandran

V.S. Ramachandran Quote: “All good science emerges from an imaginative conception of what might be true.”

11. “All good science emerges from an imaginative conception of what might be true.”

— V.S. Ramachandran

V.S. Ramachandran Quote: “I learned an important lesson: Never take the obvious for granted. Once upon a time, it was so obvious that a four-pound rock would plummet earthward twice as fast as a two-pound rock that no one ever bothered to test it. That is, until Galileo Galilei came along and took ten minutes to perform an elegantly simple experiment that yielded a counterintuitive result and changed the course of history.”

12. “I learned an important lesson: Never take the obvious for granted. Once upon a time, it was so obvious that a four-pound rock would plummet earthward twice as fast as a two-pound rock that no one ever bothered to test it. That is, until Galileo Galilei came along and took ten minutes to perform an elegantly simple experiment that yielded a counterintuitive result and changed the course of history.”

— V.S. Ramachandran

V.S. Ramachandran Quote: “So the quest for biological laws shouldn’t be driven by a quest for simplicity or elegance. No woman who has been through labor would say that it’s an elegant solution to giving birth to a baby.”

13. “So the quest for biological laws shouldn’t be driven by a quest for simplicity or elegance. No woman who has been through labor would say that it’s an elegant solution to giving birth to a baby.”

— V.S. Ramachandran

V.S. Ramachandran Quote: “But in biological systems there is a deep unity between structure, function, and origin. You cannot make very much progress understanding any one of these unless you are also paying close attention to the other two.”

14. “But in biological systems there is a deep unity between structure, function, and origin. You cannot make very much progress understanding any one of these unless you are also paying close attention to the other two.”

— V.S. Ramachandran

V.S. Ramachandran Quote: “Getting trapped in narrow cul-de-sac specializations and “clubs” whose membership is open only to those who congratulate and fund each other is an occupational hazard in modern science.”

15. “Getting trapped in narrow cul-de-sac specializations and “clubs” whose membership is open only to those who congratulate and fund each other is an occupational hazard in modern science.”

— V.S. Ramachandran

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