I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The biggest invention of modern time is the book. The book is a digital medium; book text is written in a different… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
Science is now documenting that it's not the objects of meditation that are important, it's the process of paying attention to them… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
I don't know whether, if your father is a brain surgeon, people go, 'He's not as good a brain surgeon as his… — Finty Williams Copy Share Image
Science and religion are very much alike. Both are imaginative and creative aspects of the human mind. The appearance of a conflict… — John Eccles Copy Share Image
I think the definition will change as we learn more, but my working definition of solving the brain is: one, we can… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
Researchers and biotech executives foresee the day when the effects of many catastrophic diseases can be reversed. The damaged brains of Alzheimer's… — George Woolf Copy Share Image
You sort of have that meditation, that happy place I go to in my brain. The happy place may be an island… — John Collins Copy Share Image
So when one thought goes into your mind, it's not just one thought, it has to bounce off both hemispheres of the… — Jaden Smith Copy Share Image
The intersection of psychology and business is typically seen as being as congested, stressful, and emotionally barren as a peak commute traffic… — Chip Conley Copy Share Image
The sun is shining, mynah birds are chattering, palm trees are swaying, so what. I'm in the hospital and I'm healthy. My… — Kaui Hart Hemmings Copy Share Image
Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
The gifts of microscopes to our understanding of cells and organisms is so profound that one has to ask: What are the… — Daniel Mazia Copy Share Image
Have things to look forward to: Plan a trip, treat yourself to the spa, make plans in the future so that you… — Amy Chan Copy Share Image
There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment.… — Chaz Bono Copy Share Image
The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is hard to be with another's pain if we cannot be with our own. Since I was a child I have… — Oriah Dreamer Copy Share Image
You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I'm really trying to just keep this internal, and be faithful to the story and the characters, and keep 99.9% of my… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The way real memories work, from what we understand, is really complex. And it's an interconnection of different things and redundancy in… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
You have to move so you don't die. You have to move so your brain doesn't atrophy. You have to move so… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're going to be faced with situations where the line isn't clear between what's right and what's wrong.Your heart will tell… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
We have sexual lust even though we know perfectly well that, because we're using contraception, it is not going to result in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What is it about animation, graphics, illustrations, that create meaning? And this is an important question to ask and answer because the… — Tom Wujec Copy Share Image
A lot of addiction actually ends by age 30 - something like 50 percent of all addictions with the exception of tobacco… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and it seems… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
After directing awhile, you get an instinct about it, but you have to be able to trust your own feelings. Invariably, two-thirds… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I had this fantasy of becoming a neurosurgeon. You know, the normal Jewish boy fantasy, but I wanted to be a neurosurgeon… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Inside our skulls are fish, reptile and shrew brains, as well as the highest centers that allow us to integrate information in… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
“The neurons in the gut are so innumerable that scientist are now calling the totality of them "the second brain"... In fact,… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
“it seems that once again people engage in a search for evidence that is biased toward confirmation. Asked to assess the similarity… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
Discipline is not just about work, but about diet and about exercise and on a deeper level, about concentrating and making sure… — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
I listen to tons of hard rock and metal, like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, etc., but I also listen to Beethoven and Mozart,… — Dave Smalley Copy Share Image
Heads are a good deal, and I think they would be a common feature. It's hard to think of species that don't… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The brain is not, like the liver, heart and other internal organs, capable from the moment of birth of all the functions… — Ray V. Pierce Copy Share Image
Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
My natural state is one that's affected by the shortage of dopamine production in my brain. So my natural state is to… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
