Grey Matter Quotes

• What do you think my brain is made for?
  Is it just a container for the mind?
  This great grey matter,
  Sensei replied what is your woman,
  Is she just a container for the child?
  That soft pink matter

  Frank Ocean

  Song, Children, Thinking

  Song: Pink Matter

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• On your 60th, here's something philosophical
  To give the old grey matter a stir
  How old would you be
  If you didn't know how old you were?

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Philosophical, Giving

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• There have been studies done on people who meditate and they have found that they actually have increased grey matter in certain parts of their brain and more neural conductivity, meaning more connections between certain parts of the brain. They have increased capacity for, in some cases, memory, or reasoning.

  Jennifer Ashton

  Memories, People, Brain

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• Like the entomologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Butterfly, Garden, Cells

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• This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Done, Chalk

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• Mind is not simply the collection of aggregate cells inside your brain. If you are only the grey matter, then when that dies, you won't exist any more. It's not that easy. You exist forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Cells

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• Intuition was not just visual but also auditory and kinesthetic. Those who watched Feynman in moments of intense concentration came away with a strong, even disturbing sense of the physicality of the process, as though his brain did not stop with the grey matter but extended through every muscle in his body.

  James Gleick

  Strong, Brain, Intuition

  James Gleick (2011). “Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman”, p.381, Open Road Media

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• Frankly I don't listen to lyrics (a problem in that I apparently work in musical theatre) I just want a good tune that doesn't require the use of too much grey matter.

  Christian Campbell

  Musical, Theatre, Use

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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