Human Brain Quotes - Page 8

• What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.

  Nicholas A. Christakis

  Technology, Brain, Groups

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• Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Secret, Brain, Mystery

  "How Does the Brain Work?". "NOVA scienceNOW", www.pbs.org. September 14, 2011.

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• Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Brain, Transformation, Computer

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• The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can't be easily defined in zeros and ones.

  Naveen Jain

  Heart, Black And White, Brain

  "10 Secrets to Entrepreneurial Success" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2011.

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• Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.

  Sam Harris

  Brain, Influence, Economy

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• The world is endless, the universe inexhaustible, and the human brain will never be threatened with unemployment.

  Genrich Altshuller

  Brain, Unemployment, World

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• I want to know where joy lives. I'd interview scientists, religious leaders and heads of state. I'd want to find out exactly what makes people happy. I'd want to look into the biology, the chemistry of the human brain.

  Goldie

  Religious, People, Joy

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• That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility of science and religion but to the flexibility, in both the physical and metaphysical senses, of the human brain.

  Susan Jacoby

  Brain, Belief, Natural

  Susan Jacoby (2005). “Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism”, p.132, Macmillan

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• Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.

  Tan Le

  Data, Understanding, Brain

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• A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.

  Oliver Sacks

  Profound, Brain, Intriguing

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• Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.

  Oliver Sacks

  Book, Hopeful, Brain

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• Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.

  David Perlmutter

  Track, Brain, Survival

  "Human Memory: Why Bad Memories Stick" by David Perlmutter, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2011.

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• The variety of minds served the economy of nature in many ways. The Creator, who designed the human brain for activity, had insured the restlessness of all minds by enabling no single one to envisage all the qualities of the creation. Since no one by himself could aspire to a serene knowledge of the whole truth, all men had been drawn into an active, exploratory and cooperative attitude.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Attitude, Men, Brain

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1993). “The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson”, p.125, University of Chicago Press

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• Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety.

  Shawn Achor

  Thinking, Anxiety, Brain

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

  Don DeLillo

  Brain, Proud, Enough

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.210, Pan Macmillan

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• The structure of the human brain is enormously complex. It contains about 10 billion nerve cells (neurons), which are interlinked in a vast network through 1,000 billion junctions (synapses). The whole brain can be divided into subsections, or sub-networks, which communicate with each other in a network fashion. All this results in intricate patterns of intertwined webs, networks of nesting within larger networks.

  Fritjof Capra

  Fashion, Philosophy, Cells

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• When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. Every single time you lift off the bone and open the durra and there it is - the human brain, the thing that gives a person a personality, that distinguishes each one of us, that there could be more than 6 billion of us here on this planet with brains that look the same, but each one being distinctly different because of what is going on in that thing. I'll never get over my awe of that.

  Benjamin Carson

  Giving, Personality, Brain

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Writing, Long, Brain

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