“The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural ...” — Eric Kandel Quote

“The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience.”

“Psychoanalysis has a degree of unreliability about it. You will never know whether you've found the truth. You may find a subjective truth, but you don't know.”

“I have a philosophy that has guided me throughout all of my scientific career, and that is, I think of myself as a fairly thoughtful person. I don't go into projects impetuously, and I try to select important problems.”

“If everybody has to take biology and chemistry, they can take computer science. Computer science is a more useful skill right now than a lot of other things that people are learning at school.”

“! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.”

“So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.”