Brain Quotes - Page 11

• 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

  Hands, Ideas, Decision

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• Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.

  Isaac Newton

  Vision, Nerves, Fiber

  Sir Isaac Newton (2012). “Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.

  Carl Jung

  Hundred, Bigs, Committees

  Carl Gustav Jung, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1970). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Civilization in transition”

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• The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut.

  Gary Larson

  Gentleman, Mammals, Climate

  Gary Larson (1989). “The PreHistory of the Far side: a 10th anniversary exhibit”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.

  Ashley Montagu

  Genius, Idiot, Structure

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• Maybe if we lie down our brains will work.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Lying, Ifs

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.

  Alan Watts

  Animal, Men, Emptiness

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• We English have sex on the brain. Not the best place for it, actually.

  Laurence Harvey

  Sex, Best Place

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science, Men, Ideas

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• The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Blood, Law

  1596-7 Portia.TheMerchant ofVenice, act1, sc.2, l.17-18.

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• Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

  Douglas Coupland

  Mean, Twenties, Research

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• Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Heart, Color, Hue

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1860). “The Professor at the Breakfast-table: With The Story of Iris”, p.185

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• A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.

  Donald O. Hebb

  Simple, Government, May

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• Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

  Herman Melville

  Work, Grief, Men

  Herman Melville (2012). “Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition)”, p.153, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

  Mark Russell

  Republican, Democrat, Brain Dead

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• My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.

  Jack Abbott

  Eye, Umpires, Routes

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• Indeed, while Nature is wonderfully inventive of new structures, her conservatism in holding on to old ones is still more remarkable. In the ascending line of development she tries an experiment once exceedingly thorough, and then the question is solved for all time. For she always takes time enough to try the experiment exhaustively. It took ages to find how to build a spinal column or brain, but when the experiment was finished she had reason to be, and was, satisfied.

  John M. Tyler

  Nature, Science, Age

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