Paul Greengard

My philosophy is that we should ask the most important question that's capable of being solved.

It's a tragedy for society to spend decades training people and then depriving them of work at some arbitrary age.

I didn't want to spend my life contributing to the development of more atomic weaponry.

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.

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.

In terms of the brain, you can in a crude way think of the human brain as a computer.

Modesty isn't one of my strong suits.

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.

The knowledge we have of communication among cells does not permit my giving you a sophisticated understanding.

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.

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.