Brain Quotes - Page 10

• The brain is wider than the sky.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Learning, Sky

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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  I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Creativity, Healing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Scott Adams

  Way, Tiny, One Way

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• No brain is stronger than its weakest think.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Thinking, Stronger

  "Laughs: A Sovereign Remedy for Boredom". Book by Thomas Lansing Masson, p. 167, 1926.

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• trust your heart but use your head

  Julie Garwood

  Trust, Heart, Mind

  Julie Garwood (2012). “Julie Garwood Box Set: Gentle Warrior, Honor's Splendour, Lion's Lady, and a New Excerpt!”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Education, Math, Thinking

  "The Devil's Dictionary". Book by Ambrose Bierce, 1911.

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• In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain.

  Victor Frederick Weisskopf

  Men, Ideas, World

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• Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  Air, Enemy, Warfare

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• 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

  Gmos, Perception, Research

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• Minds are simply what brains do.

  Marvin Minsky

  Mind

  Marvin Minsky (1988). “Society Of Mind”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• Basically there are two types of animals: animals, and animals that have no brains; they are called plants. They don't need a nervous system because they don't move actively, they don't pull up their roots and run in a forest fire! Anything that moves actively requires a nervous system; otherwise it would come to a quick death.

  Rodolfo Llinas

  Running, Moving, Animal

  "The Electric Brain". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. October 23, 2001.

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• Healthful whole foods improve our brain function as well.

  Marilu Henner

  Function, Wells, Whole

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• Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that senses the world outside and within, produces love and sorrow, keeps our hearts beating and lungs breathing, composes our thoughts, and constructs our consciousness.

  Carl Zimmer

  Communication, Heart, Breathing

  Carl Zimmer (2014). “Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe if we lie down our brains will work.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Lying, Ifs

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• 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.

  J. Allan Hobson

  Weather, Waiting, Mind

  J. Allan Hobson (2002). “The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness”, p.29, MIT Press

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• You have the morals of rabbit, the character of a slug, and the brain of a platypus.

  Cybill Shepherd

  Character, Rabbits, Slugs

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• The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.

  Benjamin Hooks

  Civilization, Made, Endure

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• All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Blood

  Walt Whitman, David S. Reynolds (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.6, Oxford University Press

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• Within the book and volume of thy brain.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Volume

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1152

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• The number of possible "on-off" patterns of neuronal firing is immense, estimated as a staggering ten times ten one million times (ten to the millionth power). The brain is obviously capable of an imponderably huge variety of activity; the fact that it is often organized and functional is quite an accomplishment!

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Numbers, Accomplishment, Patterns

  Daniel J. Siegel (2015). “The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are”, p.16, Guilford Publications

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• But for the unquiet heart and brain
  A use in measured language lies;
  The sad mechanic exercise
  Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Pain, Lying, Heart

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 5

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• The object of my researches is the brain. The cranium is only a faithful cast of the external surface of the brain, and is consequently but a minor part of the principal object.

  Franz Joseph Gall

  Skulls, Anatomy And Physiology, Faithful

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• One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge.

  Richard Gregory

  Understanding, Porridge, Difficulty

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• The most obvious feature of the brain is that it is not homogeneous, but composed of different regions. There are no intrinsic moving parts, no obvious way of knowing where to start to understand what is actually happening, or what functions are taking place.

  Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield

  Moving, Knowing, Way

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• The question of how the ebb and flow of a highly developed mind can be catered to by a physical brain, and the related question of how the one impacts the other, are the hardest-ever challenges to human ingenuity and imagination.

  Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield

  Impact, Ebb And Flow, Imagination

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