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Sir John C. Eccles
(27 Jan 1903 - 2 May 1997)
Australian physiologist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research in how signals pass between nerves and muscles.
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Science Quotes by Sir John C. Eccles (1 quote)
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition. ... We have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world.
— Sir John C. Eccles
In Evolution of the Brain: Creation of the Self (1991), 241.
See also:
- 27 Jan - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Eccles's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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