Brain Quotes

Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain?

Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, det...

You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the human heart, I'm af...

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, w...

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, ...

All the same,' said the Scarecrow,'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not k...

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one br...

I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a communit...

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I ...

One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some...

Love is the opposite of good sense.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefo...

Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers...

Over time, there would be less and less of him and more of the tumor. His brain was being eaten by G...

I usually like to interact with people who don't speak until it's necessary but I was intimidated by...

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on t...

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are ...

... we have created a man with not one brain but two. ... This new brain is intended to control the ...

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21s...

The real bottleneck is software. Creating software can be done only the old-fashioned way. A human -...

These computer simulations try only to duplicate the interactions between the cortex and the thalamu...

Disappointment over love affairs generally has the effect of driving men to drink, and women to ruin...

Memory is the 'filling cabinet' of the brain wherein is stored all thought impulses, all conscious e...

Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else...

We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was ...

I have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you've had children wit...

There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a s...

The real functional "machinery" of the brain, for Edelman, consists of millions of neuronal groups, ...

…he quit drinking coffee, and naturally, his brain stopped working.

Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah."Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It'...

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain.It is in the brain, and ...

From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was domi...

What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.

Had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient materia...

Consciousness reigns but doesn't govern.

Cultural criticism always attacks the mass media. I don't think that makes sense. We should look mor...

#36:...Something has happened to our intelligence. My reasoning is this: arrangements of part of the...

Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which i...

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without w...

Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the ...

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by a...

The only difference between me and most people is that I'm perfectly aware that all my important dec...

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious effort to learn how to think, onl...

Evolutionary psychologists suggest that, just as the eye is an evolved organ for seeing, and the win...

When we look at a solid lump of iron or rock, we are 'really' looking at what is almost entirely emp...

Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.

The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not s...

It is hard for us to imagine now, but our earliest human ancestors who ventured out onto the grassla...

It is hard for us to imagine now, but our earliest human ancestors who ventured out onto the grassla...

It is hard for us to imagine now, but our earliest human ancestors who ventured out onto the grassla...

It is hard for us to imagine now, but our earliest human ancestors who ventured out onto the grassla...

It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ

If spiritual science is to do the same for spirit that natural science has done for nature, it must ...

Something I owe to the soil that grew--More to the life that fed--But most to Allah who gave me two ...

I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.

As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will a...

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

I am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness.

Drink your coffee, it clears out the brain in the morning

The lizard brain is hungry, scared, angry, and horny.The lizard brain only wants to eat and be safe....

We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between b...

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heave...

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to d...

I really, really wanted to be successful in my life just based on me and my mind alone…I didn’t ever...

A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Someti...

The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, sta...

It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at th...

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnor...

I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. ...

It’s a popular fact that 90 percent of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wro...

It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is w...

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

In the recumbence of depression, your information-gathering system collates its intelligence and rep...

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with...

The level of intelligence has been tremendously increased, because people are thinking and communica...

There are few moments of clarity more profound than those that follow the emptying of an overcharged...

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is ...

I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I c...

I have felt that odd whirr of wings in the head.

God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the b...

The heart is a muscle. You 'know' in your limbic system. The seat of instinct. The mammalian brain. ...

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American pe...

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought ...

No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, an...

Owl," said Rabbit shortly, "you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking t...

Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully."Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever.""And he has Brain.""Y...

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.

I've got a very nice staff here. People with patience, you know, and good temper, and not too brainy...

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instr...

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given ...

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which ...