Human Brain Quotes - Page 2

• I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Memorable, Thinking, Intelligent

  The Observer, December 27, 1987.

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• Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  War, Brain, Colonialism

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• Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.

  David Bellos

  Creative, Brain, Use

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• We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.

  Peter De Vries

  Brain, Ears, Devices

  Comfort me with Apples Ch. 1

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• The human brain is estimated to have about a hundred billion nerve cells, two million miles of axons, and a million billion synapses, making it the most complex structure, natural or artificial, on earth.

  Tim Green

  Cells, Two, Brain

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• The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,.

  Howard Hughes

  Brain, Evolution, Rapids

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• C++ is an insult to the human brain

  Niklaus Wirth

  Brain, Insult, Humans

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• All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.

  Michel Gondry

  Phones, Brain, Gadgets

  "Michel Gondry: 'That's my new policy - self-censorship'" by Nick Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2009.

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• The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

  David Suzuki

  Life, Home, Intelligent

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• Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than virtue.

  Robert Wright

  Skills, Victory, Brain

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• ... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

  George Eliot

  Reading, Brain, Proof

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• I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Alcohol, Brain, Poison

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• The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.

  H. L. Mencken

  Secret, Brain, May

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• I bet the human brain is a kludge

  Marvin Minsky

  Humorous, Brain, Humans

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• as all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Sleep, Brain, Needs

  Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”

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• One of the most impressive features of brains - and especially human brains - is the flexibility to learn almost any kind of task that comes its way.

  David Eagleman

  Brain, Tasks, Way

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.81, Vintage

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• The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering.

  Maile Meloy

  Brain, Suffering, Roles

  "The Proxy Marriage" by Maile Meloy, www.newyorker.com. May 21, 2012.

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• A lot of people talk about sometime around 2030, machines will be more powerful than the human brain, in terms of the raw number of computations they can do per second. But that seems completely irrelevant. We don't know how the brain is organized, how it does what it does.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Powerful, Numbers, People

  "Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us". Interview with Guia Marie Del Prado, August 9, 2015.

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• Alpha waves in the human brain are between 6 and 8 hertz. The wave frequency of the human cavity resonates between 6 and 8 hertz. All biological systems operate in the same frequency range. The human brain's alpha waves function in this range and the electrical resonance of the earth is between 6 and 8 hertz. Thus, our entire biological system - the brain and the earth itself - work on the same frequencies. If we can control that resonate system electronically, we can directly control the entire mental system of humankind.

  Nikola Tesla

  Brain, Earth, Wave

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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 abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.

  John Eric Erichsen

  Funny, Wise, Technology

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  The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Brain, Sitting, Neurons

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• The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure, it is hidden away in bone and conducts internal affairs in secrecy, but virtually all the business is the direct result of thinking that has already occurred in other minds.

  Lewis Thomas

  Thinking, Brain, Mind

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

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• In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain.

  Victor Frederick Weisskopf

  Men, Ideas, Brain

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• The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

  David Sarnoff

  Mistake, Decision, Brain

  David Sarnoff (1952*). “הקידמה באלקטרוניקה”

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