Quotes from book
The Tell-Tale Brain

V.S. Ramachandran

The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human is a 2010 nonfiction book by V. S. Ramachandran that explores, from a neurological viewpoint, the uniqueness of human nature.

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“science should be question driven, not methodology driven.”

V.S. Ramachandran book The Tell-Tale Brain

The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human

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

V.S. Ramachandran book The Tell-Tale Brain

Source: The Tell-Tale Brain (2010), p. 247

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“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 book The Tell-Tale Brain

BBC Reith Lectures, quoted in p. 291
The Tell-Tale Brain (2010)

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

V.S. Ramachandran book The Tell-Tale Brain

Source: The Tell-Tale Brain (2010), p. 249

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