Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
The initial organization of the brain does not depend that much on experience. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The amygdala is like a point guard in the emotional part of your middle brain. When it is overwhelmed, it hijacks you… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
I have always heard that you need to give yourself a long time to unplug when you do a sabbatical. I unplugged… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Oh, love is very much a physical thing… I realize that it's very complicated, and I'm sure it can't be traced to… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
There are no genes or areas in the brain devoted uniquely to reading. Rather, our ability to read represents our brain's protean… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
The Queens Of The Stone Age have teamed up with multimedia wizard brain Liam Lynch to make the video for 'Burn The… — Joshua Homme Copy Share Image
There's something behind the decision to choose to lash out at a woman. The answer to how to fix internet trolling is… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of 'practice' events at, that the average human… — Michael Merzenich Copy Share Image
That's what I like about the idea of the aesthetic experience, the idea of both enjoying looking at works of art and… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Spinning out of my neuromarketing work where, based on scanning the brains of 2,000 respondents' brains using fMRI, we learned that there's… — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
You know how I think they choose people for Gryffindor team?" said Malfoy loudly a few minutes later, as Snape awarded Hufflepuff… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Some war,” he said dismissively. “What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me.… — John Green Copy Share Image
Music is a spiritual doorway its power comes from the fact that it plugs directly into the soul, unlike a lot of… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
“When the brain thinks positively, the hands work positively, the legs run positively and the individual becomes a positive wholesome entity.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are naturally able to focus deeply on one… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those… — Geoffrey Hinton Copy Share Image
It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd taken the bull by the horns by liberating myself and creating a career. It took guts - it was scary and… — Raquel Welch Copy Share Image
The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Researchers have found that the brain definitely sends nerves directly to organs of the immune system and not just to the heart… — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Adron always had a thing for expensive ho’s with the intelligence of backwash. You look like you actually have both a brain… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, little darlings, there is no such thing as a simple love story.The most transitory puppy crush is complex to the extent… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
I come as one package deal. An Irish lesbian who wakes up every day and goes to work. And I don't spend… — Christine Quinn Copy Share Image
Don't duh me!" Puck snapped. "Trying to figure out what you're thinking from one day to the next takes more brains than… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
Even when I wasn't doing much 'science for the public' stuff, I found that four or five hours of intense work in… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation… — William D. Hoard Copy Share Image
“Keep your cherished photos of your destiny at the fore-front of your mind. No one gets the gut to make them blurred.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives, A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives, Shittin' on… — Eminem Copy Share Image
I want to see a connected and progressive future for Australia, where we harness our greatest natural resources: sun, wind, and brain… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I do want my films to have the required entertainment quotient, but I'd prefer doing films where you don't have to leave… — Arjun Rampal Copy Share Image
When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Attention for children is so much about input, and the brain can only filter so much - I don't know how many… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
