Researchers in Canada say they have discovered the part of the brain that is used to make decisions, and this is weird:… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
in her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Half my family was from the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the other half was U.S. Army, and I was raised on Army… — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Copy Share Image
We have to remain humble about our understanding of the brain, because even our most powerful tools remain pretty blunt instruments for… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
With my children, balance was everything: being not just a workaholic, not only studying but taking time to renew and restore yourself… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
“the adaptive nature of our brain inevitably follows that we, and only we can decide which part of our mind to cultivate,… — Yamada Takumi Copy Share Image
A lot of people talk about sometime around 2030, machines will be more powerful than the human brain, in terms of the… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
“When you get down to it, our brains are essentially computers that are programmed in certain ways, take in data, and spit… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thing is, autism is all different, you know, variables. And you start out with a certain amount of, you know, the… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Cognitive neuroscience is entering an exciting era in which new technologies and ideas are making it possible to study the neural basis… — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
What we want, we have for our pains The promise that if we but wait Till the want has burned out of… — Fitz Hugh Ludlow Copy Share Image
“A large brain-to-body size ratio is often considered a hallmark of intelligence, although it’s not the only factor. But it is something… — Virginia Morell Copy Share Image
Asana and complementary services are bringing the evolved team brain to the entire world. In great companies like Twitter, Uber, Airbnb, Foursquare,… — Justin Rosenstein Copy Share Image
The story of gluten as it relates to the brain throws a wide net, so much more encompassing than the inflammation of… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For, as the substance of the brain, like that of the other solids of our body, is nearly incompressible, the quantity of… — Alexander Monro Copy Share Image
Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a… — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
Everyone I know, men and women alike, would love to see the world changed so that boys and girls, men and women… — Cris Mazza Copy Share Image
We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Learning is about much more than science and math. Doing theater, music, and art in school really helps children's minds grow because… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
Sometimes something opens up in your brain as I'm writing, thinking about the song, and it's like a whirlwind. It all comes… — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
A song like 'Shade of Yellow,' it was like, me turning on my Imogen Heap brain. I was listening to a lot… — Griff Copy Share Image
As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more… — Allyson Schwartz Copy Share Image
All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I learned in my early years in the theater that I would never become the guy on top. I'll never create a… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
When you start, you have no brain; you are a kid. It's fine. But then I started to be scared. I was… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“In any situation where our brains perceive extreme threat, the neocortex (the most recently evolved layer of the brain, which performs logical… — Martha N. Beck Copy Share Image
When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using the whole front part of my brain… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue… — Michael Botticelli Copy Share Image
I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials. — Henry Markram Copy Share Image
