Scott Fitzgerald said famously that 'he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for.' But he also forgot that… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
It's interesting how sleepwalking in a certain way becomes an accumulation of your outside stimuli that's actually there and what's happening in… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I'm not going to say any names but there are fighter who, when they were young, used to have a really good… — The Korean Zombie Copy Share Image
The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably… — William James Copy Share Image
You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way. That's why… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
When you're clinically depressed the serotonin in your brain is out of balance and probably always will be out of balance. So… — Terry Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who's actually doing the distribution in… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
We have always dovetailed our cognition to our tools, but when our tools start dovetailing back, where do I end and where… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Images are so prevalent that we get most of our information from them. We receive multiple layers of meaning within a very… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
“It’s clear that if we use the mind attentively, mental power is increased, and if we concentrate the mind in the moment,… — H.E. Davey Copy Share Image
Very few people are aware that in each of our fingers, located somewhere between the firs phalange, the mesophalange and the metaphalange,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Awareness of your surroundings occurs only when sensory inputs violate expectations. When the world is successfully predicted away, awareness is not needed… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
It bothers me when I can't, for example, remember a name. I don't know if it's pre-senility or whether there are too… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Almost everybody accepts that some people can be killed. 'The concept of 'brain death' - the belief that people on respirators can… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
They test NFL players for brain trauma. They track them for the life of their career and even outside of their career.… — Liz Carmouche Copy Share Image
College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The mind and body are linked together in a meshwork of oxygen, nutrients, hormones, and neuron health. Physical exercise drives that meshwork,… — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and… — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
That's the case with these exponential technologies; our brains, they struggle with it. We live in a world that is global and… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
I've always zoomed through life in a vain attempt to keep up with my sprinting brain. If I have to choose between… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
You don't have a work brain and a home brain. You have a single brain, one you carry with you wherever you… — John Medina Copy Share Image
“A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“That's the one good thing about the human brain, it constantly revises the past, cutting bits here, adding bits there, presenting it… — Peter James Copy Share Image
But we are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts,… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains. — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
This is the way addled liberals really think. Even as they champion sucking the brains out of little babies, they think of… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Pain is the body's way of telling the brain it's in trouble. Similarly, confusion is the brain's way of telling the body,… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The dolphins and whales have a brain that is actually bigger in proportion to their size than we do. They are very… — Owsley Stanley Copy Share Image
...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
When 'Brain on Fire' premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2016, I fixated on inconsequential things like what dress I would… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
