The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Reading or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception,… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
I want to know where joy lives. I'd interview scientists, religious leaders and heads of state. I'd want to find out exactly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I confess that I do not believe that one human brain is capable of answering every objection that another human brain could… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“large systems of cooperation that involve not twenty-two but thousands or even millions of humans require the handling and storage of huge… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls.… — Joel Davis Copy Share Image
The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white).… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
“Across generations, wariness of new individuals, groups, and ideas was built into the circuits of the human brain's alarm response because those… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into peoples hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
“To talk about arson is to talk about buildings burning down. To talk about the term 'pyromania' is really to talk about… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
“Ah. Well, it stands for Freedom From Morality. We don't think healthy amorality happens naturally." "But you're not amoral," I pointed out.… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
“A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Practical affairs task the human brain throughout the day. At night, the mind takes a deserved hiatus to consider the impossible and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The brain is heavily influenced by genes. But from birth through young adulthood, the part of the human brain that most defines… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when I meet old friends, it reminds me how quickly time passes. And it makes me wonder if we've utilized our… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“We're not very different from one another, not different at all, in fact. We're all just people with the same needs, the… — Harry Bernstein Copy Share Image
I think the words 'vote strategically' translates in the human brain to: 'Oh I can't vote for what I want.' And that's… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
In a structure as complex as the human brain a multitude of things can go wrong. The wonder is that for most… — Seymour S. Kety Copy Share Image
The human brain is amazing. It functions 24 hours a day from the time we were born, and only stops when we… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The human brain is hardwired to have this fundamental experience of universal consciousness, which is available to anyone from any culture, of… — John Hagelin Copy Share Image
There are two dilemmas that rattle the human brain. How do you get rid of someone who won't go. And how do… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“It wasn't a place of worship, they explained, with a note of whinnying condescension, but a community devoted to the most absolute… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean that they are brains, but… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“If there is a tendency for the right hemisphere to be more sorrowful and prone to depression, this can, in my view,… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
“Scholars once proclaimed that the agricultural revolution was a great leap forward for humanity. They told a tale of progress fuelled by… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
A lot of people talk about sometime around 2030, machines will be more powerful than the human brain, in terms of the… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting,… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works,… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
When I was 10 years old, a cousin of mine took me on a tour of his medical school. And as a… — Aditi Shankardass Copy Share Image
If you could map out a human brain, an open question is, if you simulated it, would it be you? Now, as… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image