Jerzy Vetulani Quotes

Freud is completely unscientific. It's a cross between vision, poetry and deceit.

The worst thing happens when ideologists are trying to analyse scientific researches.

Great people that performed in "Piwnica pod Baranami" often hated each other.

We humans are already at this moment artificially reared, with the provision of basic life needs and without having to fight for it. We would even, as a species, be able to survive a long period of total glaciation of the Earth.

Vetulani, Jerzy (2008): Neurobiologia inteligencji. Wiedza i Życie, 2, pp. 14–19 (in Polish).

I have always known that I want to be a scholar. That it is a worthy thing for a man to work at the university and discover the secrets of nature. Scientific work was not a revelation, it was not a change in life direction – except my first dream to be a pearl diver. It was all from the nature, from home.

Vetulani, Jerzy (2008): Mózg, seks i nagrody. Charaktery, 1(5), pp. 41–43 (in Polish).

Longevity in the sense of the maximum survival time of an individual has not changed much with the progress of civilization.