“Her disintegration went down a shaft of phases, every one more racking than the last; for the human brain can become the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“In the summer of 1970, according to a front-page story in The New York Times, the U.S. Interior Department charged the Olin… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“It broke her heart that they had come to this: if one knew the future, all the unexpected glimpses of the beloved,… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
If the cells and fibres in one human brain were all stretched out end to end, they would certainly reach to the… — Colin Blakemore Copy Share Image
It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of young people… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I love CG - it's a great tool. I just don't think you should use it to replace reality; you should use… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
The development of artificial intelligence may well imply that man will relinquish his intellectual supremacy in favor of thinking machines. With oceans… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The human brain is a product of natural selection. In the face of scarcity, our hominid great-great-uncles were unable to compete against… — Justin Rosenstein Copy Share Image
“Whether the human mind can advance or not, is a question too little discussed, for nothing can be more dangerous than to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Vulcan Inc. is a unique organization that unites commercial, philanthropic, research, policy, and technology innovation. Our goals are ambitious - from saving… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
“There is more information in one thimble of reality than can be understood by a galaxy of human brains. It is beyond… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“We walk through another part of the building. While we wait for an elevator, Dr. Kenyon unfolds a dinner-size napkin and holds… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. The… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“the human brain is a binary system—synapses either fire or they don’t—they are on or off, like a computer switch. The brain… — Dan Brown 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
“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 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
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
What makes it possible to learn advanced math fairly quickly is that the human brain is capable of learning to follow a… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Structurally we should understand that one cannot think that the human brain is different from the brain of the other vertebrates. It… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
“I just don't care for apologies. They're never sincere. I can vouch for this since I have the urge at this very… — J.L. Mac Copy Share Image
“When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real:… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. Every single time you lift off the bone and… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
“For the human brain,” Edmond explained, “any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with ‘insufficient data,’… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“The average neuron connects to a thousand other neurons scattered across the brain, which means that the adult human brain contains 100… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Most of our brain cells are glial cells, once thought to be mere support cells, but now understood as having a critical… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
Some of the fantasy objects arising from cybernetic totalism (like the noosphere, which is a supposed global brain formed by the sum… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“It is said that the human brain divides its functions. The right brain is devoted to sensory impressions, emotions, colors, music. The… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“We deliberately forget because forgetting is a blessing. On both an emotional level and a spiritual level, forgetting is a natural part… — Tim Challies Copy Share Image
Unlike the heart or kidney, which have a small, defined set of cell types, we still do not have a taxonomy of… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
“The human brain is incredible in its capacity to heal and rewire itself. The human brain can be shaped and trained to… — Christopher Dines Copy Share Image
