“For the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“If the human brain were simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Research is showing that so-called multitasking is a myth. The human brain cannot perform two different tasks at the same time.” — David L. Hough Copy Share Image
“He referred to the human brain as a clown car parked between our ears. Open the doors and the clowns pile out.” — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“Nothing is as engaged as a retentive human brain as uncounted events is inhibited in it” — Bashir F. Biodun Copy Share Image
Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Truth in the human world, is constructed, defined and then reconstructed by the human self.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
One of the most impressive features of brains - and especially human brains - is the flexibility to learn almost any kind… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the… — Victor Frederick Weisskopf Copy Share Image
“The human brain has the unique ability to doubt the reality presented to itself. To comprehend the dissonance between ideas and the… — Autumn Christian Copy Share Image
A software system is transparent when you can look at it and immediately see what is going on. It is simple when… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
The human brain represents the infinity opportunity our powers are endless if we understand, harness, and empower ourselves to look inside and… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to find some secret places in the human brain because I think movies tend to be too rational sometimes.… — Quentin Dupieux Copy Share Image
Any attempt to reduce the complex properties of biological organisms or of nervous systems or of human brains to simple physical and… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working as soon as you are born and doesn’t stop until you get… — Kevin Horsley Copy Share Image
As we begin the 21st century, the Hubble space telescope is providing us with information about as yet uncharted regions of the… — Floyd E. Bloom Copy Share Image
“The electrons in a carbon atom in the human brain are connected to the subatomic particles that comprise every salmon that swims,… — Michael Talbot Copy Share Image
“That is how the human brain works, when it looks at a formless cloud, it tries to see a shape, or a… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“Liberation technology creates wealth, and open-source technology creates wealth. In both instances the 'center of gravity' for dramatic change toward resilience and… — Robert David Steele Copy Share Image
The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything.… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“If the Romans could have fortified their cities the way the human brain fortifies itself, we’d still be wearing togas. The mind… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
The brain is really hard to see. The whole thing is very large - the human brain is several pounds in weight… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
“It’s worth noting up front that I have always conceived of my mind as a digestive organ. A stomach for processing knowledge,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A garden is the place millions of people go to touch the earth, to smell flowers - to use some of that… — Jim Nollman Copy Share Image
“In light of all this, we’re now equipped to think about the relationship between laughter and humor. In any given comedic situation,… — Kevin Simler Copy Share Image
“Interactions with the world program our physiological and psychological development. Emotional contact is as important as physical contact. The two are quite… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“And so will I here state just plainly and briefly that I accept God. But I must point out one thing: if… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The only reason for a child not to be aware of his own vulnerability is that it has become too much to… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“A dramatic illustration of how environment shapes personality is the story of the Gilmore family. On January 17, 1978, in Utah, the… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The distinction between “real in nature” versus “illusory” is a false dichotomy. Fear and anger are real to a group of people… — Lisa Feldman Barrett Copy Share Image
“What is personal death? Asking this question and pausing to look inward - isn't personal death a concept? Isn't there a thought-and-picture… — Toni Packer Copy Share Image
