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Roger Wolcott Sperry,
(20 Aug 1913 - 17 Apr 1994)
American neurobiologist.
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Science Quotes by Roger Wolcott Sperry, (3 quotes)
The mind can quickly scan not only the past, but also the projected future consequences of a choice. Its dynamics transcend the time and space of brain physiology.
— Roger Wolcott Sperry,
From interview collected in Pamela Weintraub (ed.), The Omni Interviews (1984), 187.
The special vital forces that distinguish living things from the nonliving are emergent, holistic properties, not properties of their physiochemical components. Nor can they be explained in mechanistic terms.
— Roger Wolcott Sperry,
Interview in 'Vital Holistic Phenomena and Properties of Living', The World & I (1986), 1, No. 5-6, 265.
We found that each disconnected hemisphere [of the brain] was capable of sustaining its own conscious awareness, each largely oblivious of experience of the other.
— Roger Wolcott Sperry,
As quoted in Melvin P. Shaw and Mark A. Runco (eds.), Creativity and Affect (1994), 215
See also:
- 20 Aug - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Sperry'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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