Brain Quotes

"Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain"

"Morality is the weakness of the brain"

"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it"

Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer

"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose"

Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer

"According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design"

Larry Wall, Author

"There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"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, Actress

"Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge"

Alan Turing, Mathematician

"No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company"

Alan Turing, Mathematician

"One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead"

Scott Adams, Cartoonist

"I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available"

Layne Staley, Musician

"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"And right now I may just be living inside the heart of the body, and I one day hope to move to the brain"

Terrence Howard, Actor

"To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title"

Albert Pike, Lawyer

"In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful"

Helena Christensen, Model

"I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain"

Gerald Scarfe, Artist

"Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven"

Thomas More, Author

"I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain"

Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist

"As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow"

Allyson Schwartz, Politician

"Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can"

Martha Beck, Author

"Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul"

Julia Ward Howe, Activist

"There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul"

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will"

Brad Bird, Cartoonist

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success"

Swami Vivekananda, Clergyman

"Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study"

William Congreve, Poet

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

David Sarnoff, Inventor

"Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things"

Trish Stratus, Entertainer

"A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all"

Robin Gibb, Musician

"We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain. And once we can unravel that amino chain of chemicals that is responsible for memory, I see no reason why we can't unlock it and, essentially, wipe out what's there"

J. Michael Straczynski, Producer

"I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory"

J. Michael Straczynski, Producer

"You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize"

Gary Coleman, Actor

"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work"

Brian Eno, Musician

"Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book"

Joe Frazier, Athlete

"You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'"

Joe DiMaggio, Athlete

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