Brain Quotes
I have a 10,000-year-old brain and the boogers of a 7-year-old. That's how I describe myself.
It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything else in a few synaptic steps.
In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain.
There are people in Congress who aren't very bright. In fact, some of them are just plain brain-dead.
When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.
An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.
The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues
The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon.
Pompeii has nothing to teach us, we know crack of volcanic fissure, slow flow of terrible lava, pressure on heart, lungs, the brain about to burst its brittle case (what the skull can endure!)
Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than virtue.
I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom and data is the knowledge.
Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.
I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.
You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.
Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say.
Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels with the brain.
But I do believe in the paranormal, that there are things our brains just can't understand.
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.
She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.
Everybody has two legs, two lobes to the brain which is why we tend to be interested in symmetry, always balancing things.
Like a brain surgeon who drinks a martini when he's not on call, the successful kids in your school may smoke pot on occasion, but they are not stoners.
Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier.
The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.
I'm a morning "spinner." That's usually when my brain is thinking too much and I don't necessarily see things positively. So I sit myself down and remember that I'm making it up.
We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.
Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.
The act of catching yourself wandering and coming back to your breath is a bicep curl for your brain.
Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.
The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.
I'm crazy, I'm nuts. Just the way my brain works. I'm not normal. I think differently.
I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.
Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right.