The Boundaries of Babel Quotes

“The brain is a trashcan, though perhaps the best of all possible trashcans.”
― Andrea Moro, The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages

“I share the feeling with many that the appeal of scientific research is to open our minds to the amazement generated by progressive knowledge rather than to close our minds with an ephemeral sense of certainty.”
― Andrea Moro, The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages

“Biology, list history, is not built with 'if's.”
― Andrea Moro, The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages