Without the heart to ground it and open it to who we really can be as human beings, the brain is a… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“That day, the great mind in neuroscience Michael A. Persinger, who is now a good friend of mine, made me realize that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
It is a common fact that we see light flashes in a dark environment while living up here, and this experiment is… — Sunita Williams Copy Share Image
I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I was at Texas State in 2005. I'd never coached quarterbacks and never called plays a day in my life. David Bailiff… — Tom Herman Copy Share Image
Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
It's not just professional athletes and soldiers who are at risk from traumatic brain injury. More than 1.7 million people a year… — Anne Wojcicki Copy Share Image
Today, you have neuroscientists working on a genetic, behavioural or cognitive level, and then you have informaticians, chemists and mathematicians. They all… — Henry Markram Copy Share Image
Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
For some reason California's always been where the struggle is about how much authority you can impose on people's private lives. It… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The brain does much more than recollect. It compares, synthesizes, analyzes, generates abstractions. We must figure out much more than our genes… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a social scientist. In order to get hired and to get promoted, we're forced to declare a… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is… — Dale Archer Copy Share Image
You want to talk? Fine. Talk. Tell me something you've never told anybody else.' I thought for a moment. 'Turtles have the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
All my kids will train in martial arts; it's a requirement. Do I want them to fight professionally? Hell no. If they… — Frank Mir Copy Share Image
In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean?… — Woody Shaw Copy Share Image
Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again...… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a great improver. A lot of times there's long periods of silence when everyone in the… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil…O God, that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Kid?” – Kyrian “I’m not worthy.” – Nick “What?” – Kyrian “Dude, that’s a Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Alfa Romeo, Aston Martin, and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
About the book of Job: If it were today, God might be asking "How does DNA carry traits? How are instincts passed… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Humans have existed only for the last 0.001 percent of cosmic time. All of which says that - unless the Homo sapiens… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I'm basically a libertarian. I don't want to restrict anyone from doing anything unless it's going to harm me. I don't want… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Most science fiction is about tomorrow, a tomorrow brought to you by innovations in science and technology, and China was worried that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The very large brain that humans have, plus the things that go along with it - language, art, science - seemed to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Then one day, we’ll put the reward in the old place, and put in the rat, and, by golloy, the old habit… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
The brain processes meaning before detail. Providing the gist, the core concept, first was like giving a thirsty person a tall glass… — John Medina Copy Share Image
Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“The human brain, it has been said, is the most complexly organised structure in the universe and to appreciate this you just… — V.S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Everybody dreams, but memory for dreams is famously elusive. Even Sigmund Freud, without the benefit of modern technology's electroencephalogram, or EEG, did… — Charles McPhee Copy Share Image
“Here's what I think: when you're born, you're assigned a brain like you're assigned a desk, a nice desk, with plenty of… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
With the long-format interview, I can get into really interesting conversations with my guests. You know what it's like to get the… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image