Our brains are wired to interpret shapes as faces and bodies. That's why people see the Virgin Mary in the clouds or… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel. Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the squirrel brain" are given… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Our ancestors relied upon their advanced brains to survive during times of food shortage, and fortunately, the human brain is able to… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
This is what I do. I look at brains. I'm fascinated by it. I can spend hours doing it. In fact, if… — Ann McKee Copy Share Image
He might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head… — Robert Hall Copy Share Image
While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not… — Pat Brown Copy Share Image
“Mr. Sheep Man," I asked. "Why would that old man want to eat my brains?" "Because brains packed with knowledge are yummy,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My first summer in college I worked in a fruit fly lab where I had two jobs: dissect the fruit fly larvae… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
“...quite the chilliest and least human known to me. You see brains floating like so many sea-anemones, nor have they shape or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways.… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Males and females are unique and different, because their brains are different. There's not a limitation on girls. My grandmother was very… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
I preferred MTV as it used to be when it was about the music - I don't like it that now they… — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
“God, He didn't write the scripts for the puny little players down here. We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
“Our brains turn into simple signal-processing units, quickly shepherding information into consciousness and then back out again.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“I'm a bit short on brain myself; the old bean would appear to have been constructed more for ornament than for use,… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
People haven't even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
In the developed world, hundreds of millions of us now face the bizarre problem of surfeit. Yet our brains, instincts, and socialized… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
We are often told we can't have brains and beauty, and I really hope that my message is that you can put… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It's my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Neuroplasticity contributes to both the constrained and unconstrained aspects of our nature. It renders our brains not only more resourceful, but also… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
“Our expectations for what we should be able to recall are hardly in line with what our brains are capable of processing—which,… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
Revolutions are of no us;, it is necessary to work on transforming the brain: on sowing a different knowledge/awareness, on creating a… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Our brains are way, way more complex than any computer we know how to make. They're way more creative. The input's pretty… — Mary Lou Jepsen Copy Share Image
We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
There's a science to brain development. The brains of teenage boys are crowded with impulse and adrenaline. By the time they hit… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive… — Tris Speaker Copy Share Image
“Our brains were not designed for us to sit around contemplating what we already have. They were not designed to trigger excitement… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“Homo sapiens, the brain accounts for about 2–3 per cent of total body weight, but it consumes 25 per cent of the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“humans are born with brains structured to make sense of the world, and that often leads to beliefs that go beyond any… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
Our retinas and brains have been wired by a hundred million years of evolution to find outlines in a visually complex landscape.… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
