Brain Quotes - Page 4

• Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'?

  Henry Maudsley

  Unions, Structure, Organs

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• Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Children, Age, Use

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.276

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• More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.

  Antonio Damasio

  Psychology, Mind, May

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• I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.

  Brian May

  Music, Guitar, Play

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• Sleep deprivation is the most common brain impairment.

  William C. Dement

  Sleep, Common, Deprivation

  William C. Dement, Christopher C. Vaughan (2000). “The Promise of Sleep: A Pioneer in Sleep Medicine Explores the Vital Connection Between Health, Happiness, and a Good Night's Sleep”, Dell Books

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• The human brain is estimated to have about a hundred billion nerve cells, two million miles of axons, and a million billion synapses, making it the most complex structure, natural or artificial, on earth.

  Tim Green

  Cells, Two, Earth

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• Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something more?

  David H. Hubel

  Mind, Giants, Machines

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• The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

  Utada Hikaru

  Writing, Paper, Study

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

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• I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Different, Stories, Kind

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• The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. Although that extraordinary number is of the same order of magnitude as the number of stars in the Milky Way, it cannot account for the complexity of the brain. The liver probably contains 100 million cells, but 1,000 livers do not add up to a rich inner life.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Stars, Cells, Order

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• Your brain never stops developing and changing. It's been doing it from the time your were an embryo, and will keep on doing it all your life. And this ability, perhaps, represents it greatest strength.

  James Trefil

  Ability, Embryos, Developing

  James Trefil (1998). “Are We Unique: A Scientist Explores the Unparalleled Intelligence of the Human Mind”, Wiley

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• I bet the human brain is a kludge

  Marvin Minsky

  Humorous, Human Brain, Humans

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• If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

  Winston Churchill

  Wisdom, Heart, Political

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• A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

  Grandma Moses

  Memories, Past, Looks

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• Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

  Jules Renard

  Love, Inspirational, Valentines Day

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• What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

  St. Jerome

  Way, Purses, Speed

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• I think my hight had the most significant single effect on my existence, aside from my brain. In fact, it's part of an inferior-superior syndrome. I think I have an inferior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.

  Paul Simon

  Thinking, Want, Brutal

  "The long and the short of it" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2007.

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• The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself.

  Colin Blakemore

  Struggle, Trying

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• Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Religious, Kindness

  "The Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology by and about the Dalai Lama" edited by Sidney Piburn, (p. 52), 1990.

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• Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Thinking, Mind, Matter

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 39

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• The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Shapes, Advantage, Novel

  "The passion killer" by Jonathan Romney, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2000.

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• The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.

  John Eric Erichsen

  Funny, Wise, Technology

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• The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Sublime, Consciousness, Notes

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• My Brain and My Heart are my Temples. My true Religion is Kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Heart, Temples

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• About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.

  Oliver Sacks

  Musical, Hearing, Hallucinations

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