Brain Quotes
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Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.
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I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.
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I suppose my ideal brain food is learning languages.
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The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.
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It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.
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What about self-awareness, the mysterious ability of the brain to reflect upon itself? Self-awareness can be tampered with by brainwashing, psychoactive drugs, electrical stimulation, political or religious propaganda, even advertising. A lifetime in front of a TV set may be the equivalent of a self transplant.
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After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.
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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.
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Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.
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We have friends who don't use psychoactive materials but who are still interested in how the brain works and psychology and spiritual training. It's a very large and very intelligent bunch of people. We have two big parties each year where people bring food and drink and get to know each other. It makes a very good party.
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There's a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms of importance. Without that little chemical twist in our brains that makes us enjoy learning new things, we might be more like the sharks and ants of the world.
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Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains.
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Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
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I actually wanted to be an astronaut, but I don't have a mathematical brain.
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What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
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Every day I wake up, there's a little part of my brain that's thinking I might die in a terrorist attack today.
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There are clear differences between and some- and there may be protective factors in a female brain.
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The brain gives up a lot less easily than the body.
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The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living.
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Somebody asked me if I could go back and start again with a different brain, would I. Years ago I thought yes, I would, and now I know I wouldn't. Because whatever challenges I had in school, I guess they forced me to where I am today. So I now see them as an asset.
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The peculiar fascination of the brain lies in the fact that there is probably no other object of scientific enquiry about which we know at once so much and yet understand so little.
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A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain,... makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes.
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I'm sure our brains are working unconsciously. When you have a creative thought, it's parts of the brain talking to each other without your awareness.
