The brain immediately confronts us with its great…

The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons.…

— Gerald Fischbach

The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object…

— Michio Kaku

There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

In its evolution from a more primitive nervous system, the brain, as an organ with ten or more billion neurons and many more connections…

— Stanislaw Ulam

“The human brain operates electro-chemically. Each neuron can fire, carrying an input/output signal 100 times a second. Each neuron has roughly 10,000 connections. There…

— David Simpson

Anything crime related and anything excessively bloody and violent, my brain immediately goes to the science. I think about, "How did you do this?…

— Bex Taylor-Klaus

The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.

— Michio Kaku

“Your brain… weighs three pounds and has one hundred thousand miles of blood vessels. contains more connections than there are stars in the Milky…

— David Perlmutter

“Concepts of memory tend to reflect the technology of the times. Plato and Aristotle saw memories as thoughts inscribed on wax tablets that could…

— Michael Specter

Unlike the heart or kidney, which have a small, defined set of cell types, we still do not have a taxonomy of neurons, and…

— Thomas R. Insel

With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.

— Miguel Nicolelis

“During the twentieth century, neuroscientists and psychologists also came to more fully appreciate the astounding complexity of the human brain. Inside our skulls, they…

— Nicholas Carr

“The human brain has billions of neurons and hundreds of billions of interconnections. It can process more than two million bits of information per…

— Ben Carson

“The complexity of the resulting signalling network in the brain is almost unimaginable: one hundred billion neurons each with one thousand synapses, producing a…

— Michael O'Shea

“There are an estimated 100 billion neurons residing inside the skull with an exponential amount of neural connections”

— Michio Kaku