Brain Quotes - Page 6

• The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Mind, Body, Function

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• Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to think that every time you walk away from an encounter, your brain has been altered, sometimes permanently.

  George Johnson

  Book, Thinking, Encounters

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• A better understanding of the brain is certain to lead man to a richer comprehension both of himself, of his fellow man, and of society, and in fact of the whole world with its problems.

  John Eccles

  Men, Understanding, Facts

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• The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Jesus, Atheist

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1970, Library of America

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• There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts.

  Rene Descartes

  Exercise, Soul, Littles

  "Passions of the Soul".

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• Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

  Hamlin Garland

  Nature, Fall, Cities

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• My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more.

  Carl Sagan

  Anatomy And Physiology, Mind, Fundamentals

  Carl Sagan (2012). “Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass.

  Margaret Cho

  Inspirational Weight Loss, Dieting, Firsts

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• The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking.

  Julien Offray de La Mettrie

  Thinking, Legs, Muscles

  L'Homme machine

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• An interest in the brain requires no justification other than a curiosity to know why we are here, what we are doing here, and where we are going.

  Paul D. MacLean

  Curiosity, Why We Are Here, Interest

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• Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Fall, Reading, Creativity

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.175, Princeton University Press

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• To ask "Where in your brain is intelligence?" is like asking "Where is the voice in the radio?"

  Howard Gardner

  Voice, Asking, Radio

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• A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for disease, new machines based on brain function, further insights into our nature and how we know.

  Gerald Edelman

  Age, Disease, Foundation

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• The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls. The more than 100 billion nerve cells and trillion supporting cells that make up your brain and mine constitute the most elaborate structure in the known universe.

  Joel Davis

  Lying, Cells, Skulls

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• The brain, or cerebrum, is a material entity located inside the skull which may be inspected, touched, weighed, and measured. It is composed of chemicals, enzymes, and humors which may be analyzed. Its structure is characterized by neurons, pathways, and synapses which may be examined directly when they are properly magnified.

  Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado

  Skulls, Neurons, May

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• I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories, our imaginations, our dreams.

  John Eccles

  Dream, Memories, Imagination

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• The brain is the man; its health is essential for normal living; its disorders are surely the most profound of human miseries; and its destruction annihilates a person humanly, however intact his body.

  H. Chandler Elliott

  Men, Profound, Normal

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• The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.

  John Eccles

  Men, Lasts, Performances

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• We are our brains. My brain is talking to your brain; our bodies are hanging along for the ride.

  Jeff Hawkins

  Talking, Body, Along For The Ride

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• In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.

  George Szell

  Music, Heart, Thinking

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• Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language.

  Mark Pagel

  Powerful, Technology, Talking

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• Our right hemisphere, it thinks in pictures and it learns kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies. Information ... explodes into this enormous collage of what this present moment looks like, smells like and tastes like, what it feels like and what it sounds like.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Thinking, Smell, Sound

  "My stroke of insight". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.

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• Here I am: My brain is open.

  Paul Erdos

  Here I Am

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• Oxytocin connects us to other people; oxytocin makes us feel what other people feel. And it's easy to cause people's brains to release oxytocin. Let me show you. Come here. Give me a hug.

  Paul J. Zak

  Oxytocin, People, Giving

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• What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.

  Louise Leakey

  Writing, Language, Consciousness

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