The Brain Quotes
The communication between the brain and the heart is a two-way dialogue.
Rules of science.” Alessandro shrugged his elegant shoulders. “And what are those? We don’t even know how this works.” He pointed to his head.
My upstairs brain and my downstairs brain engaged in a game of risk and it was downstairs’ turn to roll the dice.
A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully.("Three O'Clock")
There is no medicine or other intervention that appears to be nearly as effective as exercise in maintaining or even bumping up a person's cognitive abilities.
You are not really free, and that is why you do not know what I am talking about.
Without a response, I just stand there like an idiot. Like she just slapped my brain out of my skull and I can’t think.
Most of everything is very little of not very much at all.
The great appeal of drugs in the West is only because the West has succeeded in destroying the right hemisphere completely because of compulsory education.
When push comes to shove we can afford to lose an arm or a leg, but I am operating on peoples thoughts and feelings... and if something goes wrong I can destroy that persons character... forever.
He had the arrogance of the believer, but none of the humility of the deeply religious.
It’s as if everyone got cancer the day I was diagnosed, except I’m their tumor.
My humor is channeling everything through my brain. For example, when I talk about something, it's how Richard Lewis feels about it. I'm a storyteller. I do a lot of free association.
Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain.
Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player's uniform. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.
Everything you see is filtered through your visual system (imperfect) and your brain (also imperfect, despite what your mom told you). Witness testimony is the worst kind of evidence in science.
From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.
There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.
One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some time thinking about how to create a brain that operates the way ours does.
Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which is not simply of the brain, which does not calculate, but feels and thinks.
As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.
Food is a lot of people's therapy - when we say comfort food, we really mean that. It's releasing dopamine and serotonin in your brain that makes you feel good.
Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.
When you see a tumour in the brain, it's an ugly looking thing. It's kind of black, grisly and messy. Or it can be white. To see it taken away is just amazing.
Mankind, his brain has embraced so many amazing things, and yet we're still beating each other over the heads with clubs, excepting the bullets now, one bullet can wipe out an entire city.
Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.
People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain.
I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.
I'm always thinking about whatever game I'm working on. My brain works subconsciously on design pretty much every hour I'm awake.
People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.
My imagination is so far out there already. People couldn't imagine what goes on in my brain.
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
In virtual reality, we're placing the viewer inside a moment or a story... made possible by sound and visual technology that's actually tricking the brain into believing it's somewhere else.
Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.