Brain Quotes
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Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.
Hasso Plattner
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There's some brain damage, but it may be that very brain damage that allows me to do the work I do.
Jules Feiffer
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It seems odd to think of tasting without any perceptive experience, but you are doing it right now. Humans have taste receptor cells in the gut, the voice box, the upper esophagus. But only the tongue's receptors report to the brain.
Mary Roach
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The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really special' to that sack of water and protein that is a body, and you can get it to do practically anything.
Alison Gopnik
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I encourage girls to lean in, use your brain, get in there, get in the conversation.
Krysten Ritter
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You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is no longer around. But there are other versions of it in other people's brains. It's a less detailed copy, it's coarse-grained.
Douglas Hofstadter
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Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
Douglas Adams
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Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.
Thomas Dewar
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To deal with the whole visual input at once, and make discriminations based on any combination of features in the field, would require too large a brain, or too much "previous experience" to be plausible.
Ulric Neisser
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On overnight flights, I have trained myself to get to sleep almost instantly after takeoff. I always listen to the same audiobook on my iPod so my brain knows, regardless of time zone, that that voice means it's time for bed.
Margaret Heffernan
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If I'm not writing about myself, then I sit down with people I really dig writing with and throw 'em out and see if something sticks. Their brain plus mine hopefully will make something interesting and cool and it will just snowball and we'll have a unique song by the end of it.
Kacey Musgraves
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Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.
Douglas Coupland
