Brain Quotes - Page 16

• Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Reading, Healing, Writing

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• The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.

  Pliny the Elder

  Blood, Perception, Flesh

  Natural History XI.49

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• I am delighted that I have found a new reaction to demonstrate even to the blind the structure of the interstitial stroma of the cerebral cortex. I let the silver nitrate react with pieces of brain hardened in potassium dichromate. I have already obtained magnificent results and hope to do even better in the future.

  Camillo Golgi

  Pieces, Potassium, Blind

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• A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

  Antonio Damasio

  Self, Mind, Conscious

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• We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.

  Daniel Wolpert

  Movement, Reason, Produce

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• I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Believe, Long, Perception

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The way our brain is wired, we only see what we believe is possible. We match patterns that already exist within ourselves through conditioning.

  Candace Pert

  Believe, Patterns, Way

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• [We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.

  Thandie Newton

  Clever, Reality, Self

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• Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

  Edward de Bono

  Funny, Wisdom, Humorous

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• You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.
  Your heart's an empty hole.
  Your brain is full of spiders,
  You've got garlic in your soul.

  Dr. Seuss

  Heart, Soul, Monsters

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• Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the brain, as an object of research, presents a defiant challenge to its own ingenuity.

  William Feindel

  Cells, Challenges, Research

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• Before brains there was no color or sound in the universe, nor was there any flavor or aroma and probably little sense and no feeling or emotion.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Color, Feelings, Flavor

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• What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Stupid

  William Law (1739). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians. By William Law, A.M.”, p.120

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• A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Heart, Way, Architect

  Speech by Financial Secretary, Mr John C Tsang, at Inauguration Ceremony of School of Architecture, www.info.gov.hk. January 15, 2010.

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• MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Nature, Science, Mind

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.164, University of Georgia Press

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• I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is an enormous brain on millions of legs; the individual termite is a mobile neurone.

  Lewis Thomas

  Hard Work, Science, Legs

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Funny, Justice, Diversity

  Quoted in Current Biography 1978 (1978)

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• A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.157

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• Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and general motory organ of the body and finally as the universal and general laboratory of the animal spirits and the blood or of the essential juices of life.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Animal, Blood, Essentials

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1887). “The Brain, Considered Anatomically, Physiologically and Philosophically: The pituitary gland, the cerebellum and the medulla oblongata”

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• This job's a pain-it's so mundane It sure don't stimulate my brain.

  Shania Twain

  Jobs, Pain, Mundane

  Song: Honey I'm Home

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• The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things.

  Robert Hooke

  Time, Nature, Science

  Robert Hooke (1906). “Extracts from Micrographia: Or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon”

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• If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result of the chemical processes going on in my brain, they are determined by the laws of chemistry, not those of logic.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Science, Law, Determined

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• American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Science, Animal, Research

  "Is Cloning Monkeys Morally Wrong?". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. November 15, 2007.

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• Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't undervalue the investigation of commonalities but can't avoid the conclusion that diversity has been relatively neglected, especially as concerns the brain.

  Theodore Holmes Bullock

  Nature, Science, Two

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• Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think of it as part of an elaborate network of nervous tissue that reaches out to every single part of the body.

  Tim Birkhead

  Thinking, Tissues, Body

  Tim Birkhead (2012). “Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird”, p.13, A&C Black

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