Brain Quotes - Page 13

• I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor.

  Lou Gramm

  Operations, Remove, Tumors

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• Almost 400 years ago, Shakespeare was portraying adolescents in a very similar light to the light that we portray them in today - but today we try to understand their behavior in terms of the underlying changes that are going on in their brain.

  Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

  Light, Years, Trying

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• How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?

  Antonio Damasio

  Self, Stability, Continuity

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• Scott Fitzgerald said famously that "he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for." But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence.

  Antonio Damasio

  Scott Fitzgerald, True Happiness, Consciousness

  "The quest to understand consciousness". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture - religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology.

  Antonio Damasio

  Art, Memories, Creativity

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• The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future.

  Antonio Damasio

  Memories, Past, Self

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• We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically present in our minds right now.

  Antonio Damasio

  Self, Mind, Passive

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• I am a movement chauvinist.

  Daniel Wolpert

  Movement

  "The real reason for brains". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn't affect the way you're going to move later in life.

  Daniel Wolpert

  Memories, Moving, Later In Life

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• You may reason that we have [brains] to perceive the world or to think, and that's completely wrong.

  Daniel Wolpert

  Thinking, World, May

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• Language allows you to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you, without either of you having to perform surgery.

  Mark Pagel

  Mind, Language, Surgery

  Mark Pagel (2012). “Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation”, p.290, Penguin UK

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• There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Numbers, People, Adults

  "The neurons that shaped civilization". TEDIndia Talk, www.ted.com. November 2009.

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• Here is a neuron that fires when I reach and grab something, but it also fires when I watch Joe reaching and grabbing something. ... It's as though this neuron is adopting the other person's point of view.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Fire, Views, Watches

  "The neurons that shaped civilization". TEDIndia Talk, www.ted.com. November 2009.

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• Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Hands, Space, Jelly

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• [Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes. They tend to be contextual, holistic thinkers.

  Helen Fisher

  Thinking, Data, Pieces

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• I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

  Sean Lennon

  Book, Ideas, Giving

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• My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.

  Frank Lane

  Home, Type, Fingers

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• When I cook, my brain stops completely.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Cooks

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• It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

  Norman Tebbit

  Eugenics, Views, Political

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.

  Douglas Trumbull

  Memories, Emotional, Able

  "Trumbull's Vision" by Jeff Greenwald, www.wired.com. January 01, 1997.

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• If you're going to play a brain surgeon, you just have to learn how to say the words. You don't have to go and learn how to cut open somebody's scalp. I think acting is acting. Being is something else.

  Morgan Freeman

  Cutting, Thinking, Play

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• The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.

  Wilder Penfield

  Future, Destiny, Anatomy And Physiology

  Wilder Penfield (1963). “The second career: with other essays and addresses”

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• Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

  Alexander Pope

  Memories, Chains, Awake

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• I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Hurt, Heart, Night

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• An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Important, Would Be

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