Human Brain Quotes

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

  Edward de Bono

  Funny, Wisdom, Humorous

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• If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

  Lyall Watson

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wise

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• Your brain has more than 100 billion cells, each connected to at least 20,000 other cells. The possible combinations are greater than the number of molecules in the known universe.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Cells, Numbers

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• The human brain doesn't come with an instruction manual.

  Bill Engvall

  Brain, Instruction, Humans

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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 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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• The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos.

  Owen Gingerich

  Brain, Cosmos, Humans

  Owen Gingerich (2006). “God's Universe”, p.29, Harvard University Press

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• The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.

  Isaac Asimov

  Organization, Brain, Matter

  Isaac Asimov (1987). “Past, Present, and Future”

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• It is unmatched in its ability to think, to communicate, and to reason. Most striking of all, it has a unique awareness of its identity and of its place in space and time. Welcome to the human brain, the cathedral of complexity.

  Peter Coveney

  Unique, Thinking, Space

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• The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how.

  Michael Gazzaniga

  Brain, Nervous, Adaptation

  Michael S. Gazzaniga (2000). “The Mind's Past”, p.13, Univ of California Press

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• The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  Brain, Earth, Metamorphosis

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• As we begin the 21st century, the Hubble space telescope is providing us with information about as yet uncharted regions of the universe and the promise that we may learn something about the origin of the cosmos. This same spirit of adventure is also being directed to the most complex structure that exists in the universe - the human brain.

  Floyd E. Bloom

  Adventure, Space, Brain

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• The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

  Jeff Bezos

  Brain, Machines, Patterns

  Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. March 26, 2001.

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• Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different - the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.

  Stanley B. Prusiner

  Unique, Brain, Different

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• I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Memorable, Thinking, Intelligent

  The Observer, December 27, 1987.

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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

  Brain, Humans, Complexes

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• Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human brain with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human heart with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Real, Heart

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• We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.

  Peter De Vries

  Brain, Ears, Devices

  Comfort me with Apples Ch. 1

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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, Brain

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• The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

  David Suzuki

  Life, Home, Intelligent

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• In a structure as complex as the human brain a multitude of things can go wrong. The wonder is that for most people the brain functions effectively and unceasingly for more than 60 years.

  Seymour S. Kety

  Years, People, Brain

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• Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought.

  Napoleon Hill

  Brain, Receiving, Vibrations

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.178, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Art, Truth, Science

  Konrad Lorenz (2002). “On Aggression”, p.279, Psychology Press

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• The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,.

  Howard Hughes

  Brain, Evolution, Rapids

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• I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Alcohol, Brain, Poison

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