What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
The brain is behind the really big questions we have. Who am I, what is my identity? What is that based on?… — Sebastian Seung Copy Share Image
How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood… — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Copy Share Image
When I do interviews, sometimes I'll just be like "Why the hell did I say that?" because after I hang up the… — Lydia Loveless Copy Share Image
With its hundred billion nerve cells, with their hundred trillion interconnections, the human brain is the most complex phenomenon in the known… — Steven Rose Copy Share Image
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In the United States, where it has become almost impossible to use "liberal" in the sense in which I have used it,… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
As powerful as the power of positive thoughts are, depression biologically interferes with the brain's ability to maintain a positive thought for… — Harold H. Bloomfield Copy Share Image
From study of known normal brains we have learned that there is a certain range of variation. No two brains are exactly… — Edward Anthony Spitzka Copy Share Image
The great thing about doing art shows is you get to meet the people who are interested in your art, and I… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
“Though denigrated by some outside academia and research, she embraced knowledge for its own sake and what better way to honor that… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
Sorry to disappoint the liberals who tuned in tonight to gloat about Obama's lead in every poll, but I am not worried.… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Internet servers worldwide would fill a small city, and the K (the world’s most powerful supercomputer) sucks up enough electricity to power… — Douglas E. Richards Copy Share Image
'Time in a Tree' is a song about when you find yourself in a busy state of mind, which I often find… — Jacob Anderson Copy Share Image
We've learned that musical ability is actually not one ability but a set of abilities, a dozen or more. Through brain damage,… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
I have the strong suspicion that when the brain's greed system is in operation, those parts of the brain that regulate ethical… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
“Recent brain scans have shed light on how the brain simulates the future. These simulation are done mainly in the dorsolateral prefrontal… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
My brain has a weird way of turning pressure into other things. I make a point to myself of shrugging it off… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism.… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It's amazing how flexible the human mind is in terms of jumping into a backstory or an aside. Vonnegut is a great… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
When scandal has new-minted an old lie, Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply, 'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appears… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Rebecca held her head high and swanned across the hallway, but as she neared the footman, she could see quite plainly that… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
If you measure someone's brain and see very little activity during a task, it does not necessarily indicate that they're not trying… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Given that the dreaming brain must perform these remarkable contortions - creating a world, living in it, responding to it, and then… — William C. Dement Copy Share Image
I'm sure scientists would point to specific brain chemicals, but I think love is actually a kind of magic. It's what allows… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in… — William Blake Copy Share Image
When you're a child - and my understanding of it is very basic - but when you're a very young child, the… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Add the hippie-rock-drugs atmosphere circa 1970, and you get Clinton's rechristened group Parliament, decked out in weird costumes, singing cosmic lyrics and… — Eddie Griffin Copy Share Image
There would always be an endless fight between the heart and the brain. You cannot live with only one of them so… — Mary Sadek Copy Share Image
We are in the presence of a recruiting drive systematically and deliberately undertaken by American business, by American universities, and to a… — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
I think the American people recognize is after a decade of war it's time to do some nation building here at home.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Although neuroplasticity provides an escape from genetic determinism, a loophole for free thought and free will, it also imposes its own form… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
