I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian.
Eric KandelLife is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.
Eric KandelIt is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.
Eric KandelTruth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.
Eric KandelThe task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall its millions of individual nerve cells to produce behaviour, and how are these cells influenced by the environment...? The last frontier of the biological sciences – their ultimate challenge – is to understand the biological basis of consciousness and the mental processes by which we perceive, act, learn, and remember.
Eric Kandel