Brain Quotes - Page 5

• Consider a cow. A cow doesn't have the problem-solving skill of a chimpanzee, which has discovered how to get termites out of the ground by putting a stick into a hole. Evolution has developed the brain's ability to solve puzzles, and at the same time has produced in our brain a pleasure of solving problems.

  Martin Gardner

  Science, Skills, Sticks

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• Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile sensory nerve fibers, in groups uniquely adapted to sample the energetic states of the world around us: heat, light, force, and chemical composition. That is all we ever know of it directly; all else is logical inference.

  Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle

  Light, Nerves, World

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• Nervous exhaustion from mental overwork is most often due to neglect of this rule and the brain worker should limit his regular day's work to a reasonable number of hours per day and those when the brain is at its best.

  Maurice Bigelow

  Numbers, Limits, Nervous

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• The study of the human brain and its disease remains one of the greatest scientific and philosophical challenges ever undertaken.

  Floyd E. Bloom

  Philosophical, Challenges, Disease

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• The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions.

  Eric Kandel

  Our Actions, Emotion, Capability

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• Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Heart, People, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition. ... We have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world.

  John Eccles

  Spiritual, Science, Soul

  "Evolution of the Brain: Creation of the Self", p.241, 1989.

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• As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.

  Charles Scott Sherrington

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

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• One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before the study of the higher parts of the brain, the organ of the most complicated relations of the animal to the external world. And it seems, and not without reason, that now is the really critical moment for natural science; for the brain, in its highest complexity-the human brain-which created and creates natural science, itself becomes the object of this science.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Science, Animal, Progress

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• Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

  Germaine Greer

  Insightful, Humans, Washing

  The Times 1 Feb. 1986

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• I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. [...] It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. [...] It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Wall, Mistake, Men

  SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “A Study in Scarlet”, p.13, ebookspub

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• What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own existence.

  Antonio Damasio

  Self, Feelings, Grounding

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• Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Hate, Opposites, Ideas

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• You know what, we don't know diddley squat about brains and no one has a clue how these things work, so don't believe what anyone tells you.

  Jeff Hawkins

  Believe, Clue, Squat

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• Romantic love is not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind.

  Helen Fisher

  Romantic Love, Love Is, Mind

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• Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.

  Hippocrates

  Laughter, Pain, Mistake

  Hippocrates (1967). “Hippocrates”

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• Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory…. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us….All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy….In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the man.

  Hippocrates

  Sports, Sweet, Laughter

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• If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.

  Robin Gibb

  Zero, Heart, Two

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

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• Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge. What turns the gears in our brains isn't information, but ideas, inventions, and inspiration. Knowledge-not information-implies understanding. And beyond knowledge lies what we should be seeking: wisdom.

  Clifford Stoll

  Lying, Ocean, Inspiration

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• It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Men, Errors, Feminism

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Peace, Fear, Spring

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• What a splendid head, yet no brain.

  Aesop

  Intelligence, Splendid

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

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• Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

  Hamlin Garland

  Nature, Fall, Cities

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• The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Jesus, Atheist

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1970, Library of America

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• There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts assembled by science so far allow to state, as I said before, that the great regions of the mind correspond to the great regions of the brain.

  Paul Broca

  Mind, Groups, Facts

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