The Brain Quotes
Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.
The brain is conceded to be the master organ of the body, the regulator of life, the source of human progress.
It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.
This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics.
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.
No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age.
I don't care. People here have to find their own way, negotiate for themselves, use their own brains.
When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.
Think of your woods and orchards without birds! Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beams As in an idiot's brain remembered words Hang empty 'mid the cobwebs of his dreams!
The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.
Behavior is ultimately the product of the brain, the most mysterious organ of them all.
In New England, farmers say, "If you don't like the weather, wait a minute!" Meaning, of course, that New England weather is constantly changing. This is like the brain and its mind.
That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway.
It was a pretty complete list. The kind of list one makes when one cannot fall asleep because one's thoughts keep swirling through one's brain like a bunch of sparrows on crack.
Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place.
Are you telling me your brain and your lady parts decided on a love fest bake-off winner?
The brain, to be sure, is indeed the physical embodiment of the mind, the organ through which the mind finds expression and through which it acts in the world.
If somebody has a question, they only have to ask one of us because we share a brain. We seriously have never said something different than the other one.
Researchers in Canada say they have discovered the part of the brain that is used to make decisions, and this is weird: If you're married, it's actually located in your wife's brain.
If we take a survey of the greatest actions...in the world...we shall find the authors of them all to have been persons whose Brains had been shaken out of their natural position.
Sometimes I overtinker, which is something wrong with my brain chemistry. But in figuring out why I do that, maybe I'll make myself a better person. I doubt it.
Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.
Whatever you fill your brain with and whoever you spend your time with... will determine your life a decade from now.
The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at present foresee.
The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
The brain is a little saline pool that acts as a conductor, and it runs on electricity.
Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down. My brain and body can go into overdrive - yoga teaches me to focus on the moment and not get ahead of myself.
There's been so much media about me being a surfer dude and a lot of other jobs. I guess it's time to prove myself, to let the people know, heck, I've a brain.
My brain and my heart are really important to me. I don't know why I wouldn't seek help to have those things be as healthy as my teeth. I go to the dentist. So why wouldn't I go to a shrink?
With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.
The brain processes information using 100,000 times less energy than we do right now with this computer technology that we have.
Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.
Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not!
Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband
I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else.
