Brain Quotes - Page 16

• Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Reading, Healing, Writing

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• The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.

  Pliny the Elder

  Blood, Perception, Flesh

  Natural History XI.49

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• A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

  Antonio Damasio

  Self, Mind, Conscious

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• I am delighted that I have found a new reaction to demonstrate even to the blind the structure of the interstitial stroma of the cerebral cortex. I let the silver nitrate react with pieces of brain hardened in potassium dichromate. I have already obtained magnificent results and hope to do even better in the future.

  Camillo Golgi

  Pieces, Potassium, Blind

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• We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.

  Daniel Wolpert

  Movement, Reason, Produce

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• I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Believe, Long, Perception

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The way our brain is wired, we only see what we believe is possible. We match patterns that already exist within ourselves through conditioning.

  Candace Pert

  Believe, Patterns, Way

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• [We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.

  Thandie Newton

  Clever, Reality, Self

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• Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

  Edward de Bono

  Funny, Wisdom, Humorous

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• You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.
  Your heart's an empty hole.
  Your brain is full of spiders,
  You've got garlic in your soul.

  Dr. Seuss

  Heart, Soul, Monsters

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• Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the brain, as an object of research, presents a defiant challenge to its own ingenuity.

  William Feindel

  Cells, Challenges, Research

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• Before brains there was no color or sound in the universe, nor was there any flavor or aroma and probably little sense and no feeling or emotion.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Color, Feelings, Flavor

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• Now I have demonstrated, that the convolutions of the brain are nothing but the peripheric expansion of the bundles of which it is composed; consequently the convolutions of the brain must be recognized as the parts in which the instincts, sentiments, propensities are exercised; and, in general the moral and intellectual forces.

  Franz Joseph Gall

  Intellectual, Expansion, Moral

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• To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that it understands all things but itself.

  Thomas Willis

  Soul, Tasks, Use

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• The human brain is the most complex mass of protoplasm on earth-perhaps even in our galaxy.

  Marian Diamond

  Earth, Mass, Humans

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• Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think of it as part of an elaborate network of nervous tissue that reaches out to every single part of the body.

  Tim Birkhead

  Thinking, Tissues, Body

  Tim Birkhead (2012). “Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird”, p.13, A&C Black

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• Mind, brain, and body make the man, and the man is capable of so much!

  Wilder Penfield

  Men, Mind, Body

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• It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach to grammar, pioneered by Chomsky, argues that this is only explicable if certain deep, universal features of this competence are innate characteristics of the human brain. Biologically speaking, this hypothesis of an inheritable capability to learn any language means that it must somehow be encoded in the DNA of our chromosomes. Should this hypothesis one day be verified, then lingusitics would become a branch of biology.

  Niels Kaj Jerne

  Children, Mean, Science

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• If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result of the chemical processes going on in my brain, they are determined by the laws of chemistry, not those of logic.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Science, Law, Determined

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• With its hundred billion nerve cells, with their hundred trillion interconnections, the human brain is the most complex phenomenon in the known universe - always, of course, excepting the interaction of some six billion such brains and their owners within the socio-technological culture of our planetary ecosystem!

  Steven Rose

  Cells, Ecosystems, Culture

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• What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Stupid

  William Law (1739). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians. By William Law, A.M.”, p.120

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• American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Science, Animal, Research

  "Is Cloning Monkeys Morally Wrong?". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. November 15, 2007.

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• It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in physics, where leading theorists are striving, with the help of experimentalists, to devise a single mathematical theory that embraces all the basic phenomena of matter and energy. The other two are in biology. Biologists-and the rest of us too-would like to know how the brain works and how a single cell, the fertilized egg cell, develops into an entire organism

  Dennis Flanagan

  Science, Cells, Eggs

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• But since the brain, as well as the cerebellum, is composed of many parts, variously figured, it is possible, that nature, which never works in vain, has destined those parts to various uses, so that the various faculties of the mind seem to require different portions of the cerebrum and cerebellum for their production.

  Georg Prochaska

  Nature, Science, Mind

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• The wreath of cigarette smoke which curls about the head of the growing lad holds his brain in an iron grip which prevents it from growing and his mind from developing just as surely as the iron shoe does the foot of the Chinese girl.

  Hudson Maxim

  Girl, Science, Cigarette Smoke

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