3 Quotes & Sayings By Shankar Vedantam

Shankar Vedantam is a science reporter for The Washington Post. He has also been a guest on National Public Radio, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic, among other publications. He has written articles for the Scientific American Mind and Slate, and he is the winner of the 2001 MacArthur Fellowship. He holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from Washington University in St Read more

Louis and specialized in neuroscience while at Johns Hopkins University.

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Good people are not those who lack flaws, the brave are not those who feel no fear, and the generous are not those who never feel selfish. Extraordinary people are not extraordinary because they are invulnerable to unconscious biases. They are extraordinary because they choose to do something about it. Shankar Vedantam
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Some students look at the problems that they're facing and they draw global conclusions from them. They say this is not just a professor giving me a bad grade or someone not sitting next to me in the cafeteria. This reflects that fact that I am not ready for college, or I shouldn't be in this college at all. Shankar Vedantam