Richard Bergland Quotes

“The hormonal genies that have lived unnoticed in the brain since humankind began have escaped; there is no way that they can be put back.”

“Genetic engineers are powerless in all of this without some cooperative effort from people working in allied fields.”

“Twenty years from now, the disease, 'presenile dementia' will be understood as well as diabetes is today.”

“The brain is a gland of unity: the brain is one with the body.”

“Miracles of inner healing are everyday occurrences.”

“The greatest array of brain hormones is found in the ventricle, not in the spinal fluid.”

“The measurement of hormones in the bloodstream of patients will not reflect the endocrine activity of the brain.”

“The brain remains silently separated from the noisy endocrine consequences.”

“Few would have predicted that the discovery of the circulation of the blood would have changed the way philosophers view the world, theologians conceive of God, or astronomers look at the stars, yet all of that happened.”

“Those at the top in brain science gained their pedestals by knowing more and more about less and less.”

“Every organ is a hormone-producing gland.”

“Molecules move not only from the brain to the endocrine system but also from the endocrine system, indeed, from all parts of the body to the brain.”

“Brain/body relationships might depend upon a chorus of individual hormones... which are released together to sing hormonal harmonies to the body.”

“The existing paradigm about the brain has ceased to function adequately.”

“Not all ideas of the ideas that pass from one brain to another brain... are good ideas; some are mistakes. These I call 'mismemes.'”

“Amending your own mind is very, very satisfying… amending other people's minds is a fruitless, unsatisfying effort.”

“Whatever the cerebellum is doing, it’s doing a lot of it.”