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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. John O'Keefe Read Quote
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?’ John O'Keefe Read Quote
I am particularly interested in Alzheimer’s disease and have been for some time now. John O'Keefe Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. John O'Keefe Read Quote
