Brain Quotes - Page 7

• The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sky, Ease, Sides

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.240, First Avenue Editions

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• You need to understand how human beings bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to meet and, indeed, to mate. In other words, you need to understand how ideas have sex.

  Matt Ridley

  Sex, Ideas, Together

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• What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.

  Louise Leakey

  Writing, Language, Consciousness

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• Our right hemisphere, it thinks in pictures and it learns kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies. Information ... explodes into this enormous collage of what this present moment looks like, smells like and tastes like, what it feels like and what it sounds like.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Thinking, Smell, Sound

  "My stroke of insight". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.

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• But if the brain is not like a computer, then what is it like? What kind of model can we form in regard to its functioning? I believe there's only one answer to that question, and perhaps it will disturb you: there is no model of the brain, nor will there ever be. That's because the brain, as the constructor of all models, transcends all models. The brain's uniqueness stems from the fact that nowhere in the known universe is there anything even remotely resembling it.

  Richard Restak

  Believe, Answers, Facts

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• If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Creativity, Eye

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• I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.

  Sophia Bush

  Thinking, Use, Want

  Interview with Shawn Adler, www.ign.com. July 26, 2006.

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• If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.

  Mariah Carey

  Hygiene, Half, Problem

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• Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

  Leon Kass

  Mind, Genetics, Crude

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• It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.

  Stirling Moss

  Relaxation, Muscles, Relax

  1955 In Newsweek,16 May.

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• While our behavior is still significantly controlled by our genetic inheritance, we have, through our brains, a much richer opportunity to blaze new behavioral and cultural pathways on short timescales.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Opportunity, Pathways

  Carl Sagan (2012). “Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”, p.3, Ballantine Books

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• We have our own brains.

  Pervez Musharraf

  "Musharraf to West: 'We have our own brains'" by Becky Anderson, Barry Neild and Wayne Drash, www.cnn.com. January 25, 2008.

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• My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.

  William Shakespeare

  Enemy, Spiders, Busy

  William Shakespeare (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.547

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• ...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The answer is synthesis, the ability to combine creativity and calculation, art and science, into whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts.

  Garry Kasparov

  Art, Creativity, Science

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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

  Konrad Lorenz

  Art, Truth, Science

  Konrad Lorenz (2002). “On Aggression”, p.279, Psychology Press

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• The modern geography of the brain has a deliciously antiquated feel to it - rather like a medieval map with the known world encircled by terra incognito where monsters roam.

  David Bainbridge

  Monsters, World, Maps

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• The brain is the great factory of thought. To it are directed all the forces of nature, forces which, for thousands of years, have been expending themselves upon it and impressing on it a slow and continuous motion of evolution.

  Leonardo Bianchi

  Years, Evolution, Factories

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• Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice.

  Pierre Jean George Cabanis

  Fall, Mind, Arriving

  Traite du physique et du moral de l'homme, Second Memoir (1802)

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• We must admit that the divine banquet of the brain was, and still is, a feast with dishes that remain elusive in the blending, and with sauces whose ingredients are even now a secret.

  Macdonald Critchley

  Secret, Ingredients, Sauce

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• By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even to a scientist, the organ of imagination.

  William Grey Walter

  Imagination, Firsts, Jelly

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• The eye and brain are not like a fax machine, nor are there little people looking at the images coming in.

  Torsten Wiesel

  Eye, Fax Machines, People

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• In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind the evidence that this organ contains in some recorded form the basis of one's whole conscious life. It contains the record of all our aims and ambitions and is essential for the experience of all pleasures and pains, all loves and hates.

  John Zachary Young

  Pain, Hate, Ambition

  John Zachary Young (1987). “Philosophy and the brain”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at present foresee.

  John Zachary Young

  Powerful, May, Principles

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• Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

  Helen Keller

  Life And Love, Cycling, Tolerance

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.224, 谷月社

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• There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

  L. Sprague de Camp

  Children, Writing, Faces

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