“Vienna is relatively small. And it had wonderful salons, opportunities for people to get together. There was a lot of interaction between scientists and non-scientists, between Jews and non-Jews, between artists, writers and scientists, including medical scientists.” PeopleTogetherArtistOpportunityWonderfulScientistIncludingJewMedicalInteractionGet TogetherViennaSalons Author:Eric Kandel
“Biology is a way of approaching the truth about the mind. In biology most people don't tackle problems at the level of complexity that psychoanalysis does. But psychoanalysis has a degree of uncertainty about it. A psychoanalyst may have some deep insights, but cannot, at the moment, run experiments to establish whether it's really the truth.” PeopleWayMindMayDoeMomentsProblemRunningLevelsDegreesInsightExperimentsUncertaintyComplexityBiologyPsychoanalysis Author:Eric Kandel
“In the long term, Israel's security rests on only one pillar: the Palestinians' acceptance of the country. It isn't the atom bomb that makes Israel secure.” LongCountryTermSecurityAcceptanceIsraelSecureLong TermBombsAtomsPalestinianPillarsAtom Bomb Author:Daniel Barenboim
“Germany will never be a real, free thinking and free feeling friend of Israel, because it will always fall under this shadow.” ThinkingRealFeelingsFallShadowIsraelGermanyFree Thinking Author:Daniel Barenboim
“I don't think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. It's a parallel, not a substitutive process.” ThinkingGivingArtFeelingsProcessCapableInsightBiologyParallels Author:Eric Kandel
“I don't believe that the entire world is constantly anti-Semitic.” WorldBelieveDon't BelieveAnti Semitic Author:Daniel Barenboim
“An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.” ThinkingFirstsGovernmentOrchestraIsraeli Author:Daniel Barenboim
“European anti-Semitism goes much further back than to the partition of Palestine and the establishment of Israel in 1948. It even goes further back than the Holocaust.” IsraelEstablishmentHolocaustPalestineAnti SemitismPartition Author:Daniel Barenboim
“There are probably many people in Israel who believe that Wagner, who died in 1883, lived in Berlin in 1942 and was friends with Hitler.” PeopleBelieveDiedIsraelBerlinWagner Author:Daniel Barenboim