“Odd things happen in a battle, and the human heart has strange and gruesome depths and the human brain still stranger shallows;” — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos. — Owen Gingerich Copy Share Image
Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly. — Colin Baker Copy Share Image
Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain. — David Bellos Copy Share Image
The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is,… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
“The smell of freedom. But perhaps it was true what his mother, the teacher, had said. That the human brain can reproduce… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
“the past had been no better or worse than the present—the human brain glossed over horror and hardship and revived what it… — Jennifer Ashley Copy Share Image
“That's the one good thing about the human brain, it constantly revises the past, cutting bits here, adding bits there, presenting it… — Peter James Copy Share Image
From the growth of the Internet through to the mapping of the human genome and our understanding of the human brain, the… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“There is a point beyond which the human brain loses its kinship with the Infinite and becomes a mere seething mass of… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale. — Tan Le 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
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
“Single trees are extraordinary; trees in number more extraordinary still. To walk in a wood is to find fault with Socrates's declaration… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“gene, the mutation of whose DNA building blocks accelerated after the split between humans and chimpanzees, around 5.5 million years ago. The… — D.F. Swaab Copy Share Image
“Media are really nothing more than extensions of us. It is we, not the media, who are metaphysical. Metaphysics is part and… — Peter K. Fallon Copy Share Image
“My favorite “trick” is to stop writing at a point where I know that I can pick up easily the next day.… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“I know that every atom of life in all this universe is bound up together. I know that pebble cannot be thrown… — Marianne Wiggins 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
“All the substances that are the main drugs of abuse today originate in natural plant products and have been known to human… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Warning: This data storage unit, or "book," has been designed to reprogram the human brain, allowing it to replicate the lost art… — Mike A. Lancaster Copy Share Image
A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials. — Henry Markram Copy Share Image
“It is a great irony of the evolution of the human brain: Our strength is also our weakness. Our asset is our… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose. — Donal Henahan Copy Share Image
“The human brain has a monstrous ability to re-create memories of such clarity that the rest of the body loses all sense… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
God designed the stomach to eject what is bad for it, but not the human brain. — Konrad Adenauer Copy Share Image
“...you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.” — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
Energy experts have announced the development of a new fuel made from human brain tissue. It's called assohol. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
