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Top 30 Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quotes (2025 Update)

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.”

1. “Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.”

2. “The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.”

3. “Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.”

4. “What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

5. “The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism’s thriving at the four Fs: feeding fleeing, fighting, and reproduction.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just via Facebook and Internet, you’re actually quite literally connected by your neurons.”

6. “There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just via Facebook and Internet, you’re actually quite literally connected by your neurons.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you’re not curious, that’s when your brain is starting to die.”

7. “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

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “What do we mean by “knowledge” or “understanding”? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive neuroscientists are still very vague about the exact meaning of words like “understand,” “think,” and indeed the word “meaning” itself.”

8. “What do we mean by “knowledge” or “understanding”? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive neuroscientists are still very vague about the exact meaning of words like “understand,” “think,” and indeed the word “meaning” itself.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.”

9. “Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West – but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.”

10. “Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West – but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it’s really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.”

11. “We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it’s really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.”

12. “Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.”

13. “Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.”

14. “Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.”

15. “A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “You cant just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art – although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.”

16. “You cant just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art – although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “Without ducking responsibility, what’s wrong with medicine today is that it is predicated on providing treatment, not on reducing suffering. Not on solving problems.”

17. “Without ducking responsibility, what’s wrong with medicine today is that it is predicated on providing treatment, not on reducing suffering. Not on solving problems.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.”

18. “A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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

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

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: ‘How can anyone NOT be interested in it?’ Everything you call ‘human nature’ and consciousness arises from it.”

20. “People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: ‘How can anyone NOT be interested in it?’ Everything you call ‘human nature’ and consciousness arises from it.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.”

21. “Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.”

22. “The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “The brain abhors discrepancies.”

23. “The brain abhors discrepancies.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.”

24. “Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.”

25. “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

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.”

26. “The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates.”

27. “Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, ‘It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.’”

28. “Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, ‘It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.’”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “If you’re a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.”

29. “If you’re a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quote: “If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, wed be terrified.”

30. “If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, wed be terrified.”

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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