Carl Hart Quotes
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The way we have been thinking about brain science is that people show you pretty pictures, pretty images, and you think that that tells you something about how they behave. It doesn't.
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Teaching university students affords me the opportunity to demonstrate to young adults that they don't have to be perfect to make contributions to their country.
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When patients reject official advice and proved medicine, they become more susceptible to quackery.
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Disregard belief systems that aren't based on empirical studies.
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It turns out that the term 'diversity' can be anything from black faculty to military veterans. Well, I am both, but have yet to be subjected to discrimination because I'm a veteran.
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I had a grandmother who was really strong, who doted on me, who wanted to make sure that I didn't go off the beaten path, although I did.
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Skills that are employable or marketable, education, having a stake or meaningful role in society, not being marginalized - all of those things are very important.
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I am certain that my white colleagues, when faced with an emergency situation, wouldn't think twice about calling the police. This, however, may not be the case for their black and Latino students.
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It's not a crime to make a mistake; in fact, it's human. I certainly have made mistakes.
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Too often, ill-informed rhetoric has led to emotional hysteria that obfuscates solid evidence regarding the real problems faced by poor people and, in overwhelmingly great proportions, by black people.
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When I got out of the military, I finished up my education at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and I had some mentors who said, 'You got what it takes. You should consider going to graduate school, getting a Ph.D. in neuroscience.' I didn't think I had what it took until somebody who had a Ph.D. told me I had what it takes.
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I had to go to England to really learn about American racism in a way that corroborated my reality. That was critical.
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Sleep is probably the most important biological function. If you don't get enough sleep, you can get psychiatric illnesses and all types of different illnesses.
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You don't have money, you can't do science. But that's part of the price that I pay.
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Trump has been - has shown himself to be the most ignorant president that we've ever had. He has shown himself to be the one that disregards law more so than any other president we've had.
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I did most of my Ph.D. in Washington. They used to bring black kids through the lab for tours, and I was one of the few black researchers.
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I am a drug expert and the father of 3 black males.
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I am committed to the people who are sick and tired of seeing their tax dollars being used to fund unethical people and corporations.
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In the mainstream, I'm suspect because I'm black. I have dreadlocks, I have a goatee. I mean, I'm just suspect. In my classroom and at Columbia, I'm not as suspect because it's clear I know what I'm doing, but I am still suspect.
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I went into the military because I didn't get a scholarship, a basketball scholarship I thought that I would get.
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Perhaps, for once, we should try interventions that are informed by science and proven to work.
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We need better public education and more realistic education.
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I have a hard time arguing with stupid people.
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The strange proposition that black intellectuals - regardless of their training - are 'race experts' mainly because they are black is naive and potentially dangerous.