Brain Quotes · Page 77

The name of the game is efficiency; we have to play that game with our toys and our brains.

— Tim Reid

Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function.

— Darold Treffert

Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead.

— Semir Zeki

I find that protein wakes up my brain and gets me ready for the rest of my day.

— Marisa Tomei

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

— Julian May

Every brain is wired differently from every other brain, and learns in ways unique to that wiring.

— John Medina

“The images in our mind is more vivid than the camera could ever produce.”

— Raigon Stanley

Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful!

— Joe McNally

Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared that I…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“The leech is more developed than the flatworm, with one glial cell for every 30 neurons, and the glial cells occupying 51…

— Andrew Koob

As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never…

— Thomas Browne

Earlier research has shown that poor blood flow can damage these parts of the brain. So one theory is that exercise may…

— Bill Vaughan

We have more than enough to take care of everybody on earth at this time. If we have a shortage of anything,…

— Jacque Fresco

From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all…

— Deepak Chopra

Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious.…

— Anonymous

Fairly early in life, I noticed my brain was weird. By that I mean that I noticed it had a way of…

— Phil Vischer

In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ…

— Susan Blackmore

When a male vole repeatedly mates with a female, a hormone called vasopressin is released in his brain. The vasopressin binds to…

— David Eagleman

We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract.…

— Anthony Doerr

The different political systems, religions and social habits demonstrate that the same brain can be tuned in different manners. But the tuning…

— Rodolfo Llinas

Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace or the…

— Steven Pressfield

This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind -- the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in…

— Albert Einstein

The only thing going on is the progression of words and sentences across page after page and so suddenly we see this…

— Nicholas G. Carr

I think the brain is a dynamic system in which some parts control or suppress other parts. And if perhaps one has…

— Oliver Sacks

Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.

— Isaac Newton

Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

— Arundhati Roy

My system uses the speed of components in cameras and cell phones to get four inches of depth through the brain.

— Mary Lou Jepsen

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

— Carl Sagan

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The gift of the great microscopist is the ability to think with the eyes and see with the brain.

— Daniel Mazia

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.

— Terry Pratchett

One doesn't need a particular height or body to be a villain in movies. He needs the brain and the look.

— Ali

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is,…

— Bill Viola

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.

— Hannibal

For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

— Louis Kronenberger

Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.

— David Bellos

Our brains are not capable of comprehending the infinite so, instead, we ignore it and eat cheese on toast.

— Jonathan Cainer

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

— Oscar Wilde

A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

— Robert A. Heinlein