Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by John O'Keefe

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American scientist John O'Keefe.

Last updated on December 20, 2024.

John O'Keefe, is an American-British neuroscientist, psychologist and a professor at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour and the Research Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at University College London. He discovered place cells in the hippocampus, and that they show a specific kind of temporal coding in the form of theta phase precession. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014, together with May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser; he has received several other awards. He has worked at University College London for his entire career, but also held a part-time chair at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology at the behest of his Norwegian collaborators, the Mosers.

American - Scientist | Born: November 18, 1939

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We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.

John O'Keefe

I want to know how the mind works.

John O'Keefe

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.

John O'Keefe

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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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.

John O'Keefe

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 am particularly interested in Alzheimer's disease and have been for some time now.

John O'Keefe

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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Cognitive neuroscience is entering an exciting era in which new technologies and ideas are making it possible to study the neural basis of cognition, perception, memory and emotion at the level of networks of interacting neurons, the level at which we believe many of the important operations of the brain take place.

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

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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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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.

John O'Keefe

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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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.

John O'Keefe

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.

John O'Keefe

What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.

John O'Keefe

A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good, and the people are good, And we 're all good fellows together.

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