Brain Quotes - page 7

In its evolution from a more primitive nervous system, the brain, as an organ with ten or more billion neurons and many more connections between them must have changed and grown as a result of many accidents. (Stanislaw Ulam)
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. View quote
Emo Philips
Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was "the software, not the hardware”, increasingly philosophers have come to recognize that understanding how the brain works is essential to understanding the mind. View quote
Patricia Churchland
Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it? View quote
Ken Kesey
I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles. View quote
Jeff Foxworthy
The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass. View quote
Margaret Cho
That is the theme of the Million Mom March: 'I don't need a brain - I've got a womb'. View quote
Ann Coulter
I want so to live that I work with my hands and my feeling and my brain. I want a garden, a small house, grass, animals, books, pictures, music. And out of this, the expression of this, I want to be writing (Though I may write about cabmen. That's no matter.) But warm, eager, living life - to be rooted in life - to learn, to desire, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
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. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. I loved light ever, light in eye and brain - No tapers mirrored in long palace floors, Nor dedicated depths of silent aisles, But just the common dusty wind-blown day That roofs earth's millions. (Edith Wharton)
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver. View quote
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The genuine investor in common stocks does not need a great equipment of brain and knowledge, but he does need some unusual qualities of character. View quote
Benjamin Graham
The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism. View quote
Benjamin Graham
Sir, there is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out. View quote
James Randi
Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing. View quote
Joss Whedon
The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of. View quote
Joss Whedon
My own field, pattern recognition... is the fundamental capability of the human brain. We can't think fast enough to logically analyze situations quickly, so we rely on our powers of pattern recognition. View quote
Ray Kurzweil
I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience. View quote
Clive Barker
The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures. View quote
Frans de Waal
Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying. (Abby Sunderland)
Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain. View quote
Don DeLillo
Absolute brain size does not tell you everything - or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations. View quote
Bill Bryson
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. View quote
Arnold Bennett
... when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson