Brain Quotes - Page 17

• There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons. All that we know, all that we are, comes from the way our neurons are connected.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Cells, Connections, Neurons

  "Weaving the Web". Book by Tim Berners-Lee, 1999.

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• I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is an enormous brain on millions of legs; the individual termite is a mobile neurone.

  Lewis Thomas

  Hard Work, Science, Legs

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Funny, Justice, Diversity

  Quoted in Current Biography 1978 (1978)

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• A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.157

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• The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things.

  Robert Hooke

  Time, Nature, Science

  Robert Hooke (1906). “Extracts from Micrographia: Or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon”

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• Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't undervalue the investigation of commonalities but can't avoid the conclusion that diversity has been relatively neglected, especially as concerns the brain.

  Theodore Holmes Bullock

  Nature, Science, Two

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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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• 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 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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• A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Heart, Way, Architect

  Speech by Financial Secretary, Mr John C Tsang, at Inauguration Ceremony of School of Architecture, www.info.gov.hk. January 15, 2010.

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• You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Loyalty, Heart, Men

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• Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dangerous job for developing brain cancer? Plutonium hat model.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Jobs, Cancer, Yale

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• Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

  Joe Frazier

  Funny, Sports, Money

  "Underdog Boxing: Pumped up for the Pacquiao-Mosley undercard fights" by Carlo L.Pamintuan, www.gmanetwork.com. February 10, 2011.

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• Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Giving, Intelligence, Liquor Stores

  'She Stoops to Conquer' (1773) act 1, sc. 1, song

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• I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Mean, Men, Males

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• Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.

  E. O. Wilson

  Humans, Complexes, Objects

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• The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess.

  Susannah Cahalan

  Beautiful, Neurons, Tangled Webs

  Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

  J. K. Rowling

  Trust, Halloween, Technology

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard...Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electromagnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill...At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.

  John Searle

  Science, Technology, Childhood

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• When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve.

  James H. Austin

  Self, Objectivity, Subjectivity

  James H. Austin (2011). “Meditating Selflessly: Practical Neural Zen”, p.12, MIT Press

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  No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Running, Loss, Office

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• You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost.

  J. K. Rowling

  Memories, Heart, Recovery

  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ch. 12 (1999). Ellipsis in the original.

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• The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed of cells, as any tissue is. They are, to be sure, highly specialized cells, but they function according to the laws that govern any other cells. Their electrical and chemical signals can be detected, recorded and interpreted and their chemicals can be identified; the connections that constitute the brain's woven feltwork can be mapped. In short, the brain can be studied, just as the kidney can.

  David H. Hubel

  Law, Cells, Kidneys

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• A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains

  Hobart Brown

  Handful

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• The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

  David Sarnoff

  Mistake, Decision, Machines

  David Sarnoff (1952*). “הקידמה באלקטרוניקה”

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