16+ Roger Wolcott Sperry Quotes On Education, World

Roger Wolcott Sperry was an American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist, and Nobel laureate who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with split-brain research. He is best known for his research on the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres of the brain and for his development of the concept of "lateralization of brain function". He also conducted research on the effects of hemispherectomy, a surgical procedure which removes one hemisphere of the brain. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Roger Wolcott Sperry on education, leadership, life.

When the brain is whole, the unified consciousness of the left and right hemispheres adds up to more than the individual properties of the separate hemispheres. — Roger Wolcott Sperry

Before brains there was no color or sound in the universe, nor was there any flavor or aroma and probably little sense and no feeling or emotion. — Roger Wolcott Sperry

What is needed to break the vicious spiral is a world-wide change in attitudes, values, and social policy. As Einstein put it, "We need a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive." — Roger Wolcott Sperry

What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere. — Roger Wolcott Sperry

To see a promising solution to a dilemma and then just leave it to questionable development at its own pace without trying to aid its implementation would seem a dereliction. — Roger Wolcott Sperry

The cells and fibers of the brain must carry some kind of individual identification tags, presumably cytochemical in nature, by which they are distinguished one from another almost, in many regions, to the level of the single neurons. — Roger Wolcott Sperry

The new way of thinking, spawned by the cognitive revolution, shows strong promise. Reversing previous doctrine in science, the new paradigm affirms that the world we live in is driven not solely by mindless physical forces but, more crucially, by subjective human values. Human values become the underlying key to world change. — Roger Wolcott Sperry

(The mind's) dynamics transcend the time and space of brain physiology. — Roger Wolcott Sperry

Sperry's thinking about subjective experience, consciousness, the mind, and human values makes a powerful plea for a new scientific examination of ethics in the workings of consciousness. These ideas were crystallized in his paper "The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution" (1993). — Roger Wolcott Sperry

Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity. — Roger Wolcott Sperry

There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by which brains worked out that special trick that has enabled them to add to the cosmic scheme of things: color, sound, pain, pleasure, and all the other facets of mental experience. — Roger Wolcott Sperry

The grand design of nature perceived broadly in four dimensions, including the forces that move the universe and created man, with special focus on evolution in our own biosphere, is something intrinsically good that it is right to preserve and enhance, and wrong to destroy and degrade. — Roger Wolcott Sperry

The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that no one I know of has been able to imagine their nature. — Roger Wolcott Sperry

The objective psychologist, hoping to get at the physiological side of behavior, is apt to plunge immediately into neurology trying to correlate brain activity with modes of experience ... The result in many cases only accentuates the gap between the total experience as studied by the psychologist and neural activity as analyzed by the neurologist. — Roger Wolcott Sperry

The main theme to emerge... is that there appear to be two modes of thinking, verbal and nonverbal, represented rather separately in left and right hemispheres respectively and that our education system, as well as science in general, tends to neglect the nonverbal form of intellect. What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere. — Roger Wolcott Sperry

The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere. — Roger Wolcott Sperry

Life Lessons by Roger Wolcott Sperry

1. Roger Wolcott Sperry's research demonstrated the importance of lateralization in the brain, showing that the two hemispheres of the brain can specialize in different tasks.
2. His research also showed that the right hemisphere of the brain is more creative and intuitive, while the left hemisphere is more analytical and logical.
3. His work has taught us that the brain is capable of much more than previously thought, and that both hemispheres can be used to our advantage.