Category - John O’Keefe

Discover the thoughtful and inspirational Quotes of John O’Keefe, a philosopher and author. Our collection of his most impactful quotes reflects his deep understanding of language, philosophy, and history.
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I do what I do merrily out of curiosity because I want to know how the brain works. That will get me up early in the morning and keep me going all day long.

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I can’t say when we will have a cure, but we now know through our findings how to ask the question of what is going wrong at the earliest stage of Alzheimer’s.

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I want to know how the mind works.

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Some of the best navigators in the world are London taxi cab drivers. They have to learn 25,000 streets and how to get from one to the other.

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It turns out that this part of the brain is one of the first areas that’s attacked by Alzheimer’s disease. So we can now use some of the basic understanding of this part of the brain to ask the simple question, ‘What is going wrong with these special cells in the hippocampus at the very earliest stages?’

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It is an incontrovertible fact that if we want to make progress in basic areas of medicine and biology, we are going to have to use animals.

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Britain punches way above its weight in science, and I think we need to continue to do that, and anything that makes it easier to bring scientists in will be very welcome.

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Science is international: the best scientists can come from anywhere; they can come from next door, or they can come from a small village in a country anywhere in the world – we need to make it easier.

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What I tend to do is I try and get as much writing done… I get as much writing done at home before I go into work.

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If you take my equipment away from me, I might as well retire.

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Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of national and other biases in the selection of the laureates.

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I think it’s fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve.

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