Paul Greengard
The knowledge we have of communication among cells does not permit my giving you a sophisticated understanding.Collection: Communication
Modesty isn't one of my strong suits.
In terms of the brain, you can in a crude way think of the human brain as a computer.
I'm sure our brains are working unconsciously. When you have a creative thought, it's parts of the brain talking to each other without your awareness.
I have a lot of confidence through my accomplishments. I'm always trying to prove I'm not the worthless child they say I was.
I didn't want to spend my life contributing to the development of more atomic weaponry.
It's a tragedy for society to spend decades training people and then depriving them of work at some arbitrary age.
My philosophy is that we should ask the most important question that's capable of being solved.
The fact is all of the most highly successful scientists I know work practically all the time.
You should only go into science if you really have a yearning to make scientific discoveries.
Science is not the glamour that's portrayed in films. It's a lot of drudgery work, along with the wonderfully exciting periods when you discover something.
We do not know with any of these neuropsychiatric disorders what the ultimate basis is. Let's say you could find that too much of protein X was involved in schizophrenia. Would you then know what schizophrenia is? You would not.
Mice deficient in this protein, called p11, display depression-like behaviors, while those with sufficient amounts behave as if they have been treated with antidepressants.Collection: Behavior