Humans are really interesting. We're so clever, what we do with our brain. How we manage to con ourselves into thinking all… — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
And then there are my friends, and they have their own lives. While they like to talk everything through, to analyze and… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
You do remember things that people say in movies. You remember particular lines and things that are funny. But, you also remember… — Miranda Otto Copy Share Image
There are so many kinds of madness, so many ways in which the human brain may go wrong; and so often it… — James Oliver Curwood Copy Share Image
You might argue that my example is bad because Einstein is dead. But according to physicist Erwin Schrodinger, Einstein is neither dead… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“In humans as well, it is because your loved one existed that certain neurons fire together and certain proteins are folded in… — Mary-Frances O'Connor Copy Share Image
Come on,” he droned, “I’ve been ordered to take you down to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
But you know, eventually that does kind of veneer, chemical veneers that you apply, they sink in. For better or for worse,… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
It's easier for our brains to have a list of rules and say, "If we keep these rules, we're in, and if… — Mark Lowry Copy Share Image
I love lawyers and bankers, they are my family, but I don't want to live with them. It doesn't make a city.… — Agathe Snow Copy Share Image
An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
I find Nigeria very frustrating. I am not alone in this. There are many Nigerians abroad. As you know, the brain drain… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The actual organization of behavior goes on the level of the individual nerve cells and their connections, and we have a hundred… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The part of my brain that was responsible for creating the world I lived and moved in and for taking the raw… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“This hinted at something that no one had ever suspected -- that the brain tracks moving things more easily that still things.… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Many „pathogens“ (both chemical and behavioral) can influence how you turn out; these include substance abuse by a mother during pregnancy, maternal… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain, this is Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America, with the largest hypothalamus in North… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
You can see that the care he took defiling the beauty he had forced in them was as precise and clean as… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw… — John Donne Copy Share Image
It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
The human face is the most deeply ingrained image in our brains. It is the two dots and a dash we connect… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
The home phone is relatively cheap, incredibly reliable, and - if you buy the right phone - will work for years without… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
For me, the best thing about cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me.… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
“Computers, iPads, and DVDs have their place, but for small children through to teens, these electronic devices can warp the senses and… — Steve Biddulph Copy Share Image
The war between authors and publishers has been a conflict of ages. On the one side, the publisher has been looked upon… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
People think of a parasite as simply taking money, taking blood out of a host or taking money out of the economy.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
For a girl, appearance can be a powerful form of oppression. No matter how intelligent a girl may be, no matter her… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Misunderstanding may arise by confusing the Buddhist and scientific definitions of death. Within the scientific system you spoke quite validly of the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The practice of yoga certainly is a fantastic practice. I only wish I would do it more. I find I can do… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
“Other studies show that plastic changes in the brain can even be observed after just a few months. For instance, in 2006,… — Elkhonon Goldberg Copy Share Image
Falling in love is when the presence of this person makes you release all kinds of substances in your brain, serotonins and… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
