When the brain isn't working properly and we don't understand how to calibrate the brain for optimal performance we are going to… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
The brain likes to be efficient and so even as its strengthening the pathways you're exercising, it's pulling - it's weakening the… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
We remove ourselves from the experience itself to a surrogate of the experience, which is whatever measure you take from the brain,… — Antonio Damasio 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 incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Right before the game, she strolled up to me. "Hey, Seaweed Brain." "Will you stop calling me that?" She knows I hate… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“There's poverty in wealth. If a man is wealthy without good health, is he not poor? If a man is wealthy without… — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“The combination of the Main brain with its central nervous system, and the ancient Animal Brain with its somatic, enteric nervous system… — Martha Char Love Copy Share Image
If the unusual never happened there would be no difference in people and then there wouldn't be any fun in life. The… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
It's the idea that when you say 'actress', people think of an airy, floaty, no-brain person, which of course you can't be… — Miranda Richardson Copy Share Image
In the vaults of our hearts and brains, danger waits. All the chambers are not lovely, light and high. There are holes… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Comedy can't live within my second-guesses, so I started doing new material. Sometimes I bombed. But you have to be willing to… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
No offense to Boston, but I was glad to get out of there. I think it's just because I'm from Philly. Honestly,… — Kurt Vile 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
Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Some scholars argue that although the brain might contain neural subsystems, or modules, specialized for tasks like recognizing faces and understanding language,… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who's actually doing the distribution in… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
We have always dovetailed our cognition to our tools, but when our tools start dovetailing back, where do I end and where… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.… — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
General Systems Theory, a related modern concept [to holism], says that each variable in any system interacts with the other variables so… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
In an effort to civilize combat sports, authorities mandated padded gloves and instantly made the sports far more savage. Granted, putting gloves… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Where war destroys, art inspires. And in order to inspire, you need to penetrate the brain. In order to penetrate the brain,… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Essentially, there's a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
There have been studies done on people who meditate and they have found that they actually have increased grey matter in certain… — Jennifer Ashton Copy Share Image
The first proponent of cortical memory networks on a major scale was neither a neuroscientist nor a computer scientist but .. a… — Joaquin Fuster Copy Share Image
It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Alpha waves in the human brain are between 6 and 8 hertz. The wave frequency of the human cavity resonates between 6… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Glass shattered, vampires roared, humans screamed. The noise battered at me, just as the tidal wave of scores of brains at high… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make… — Utah Phillips 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
“But the brain does much more than just recollect it inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes, it generates abstractions. The simplest thought like… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Just as an informal, nonscientific observation, most people's personalities don't seem to change very much during their lives. There are exceptions in… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is 'veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols' because these are the surest way by which moral and ethical truths may… — Carl H. Claudy Copy Share Image
Since the universe must contain millions of appropriate planets, consciousness in some form - but not with the paired eyes and limbs,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We live longer and healthier lives than ever before. Animal research has improved the treatment of infections, helped with immunisation, improved cancer… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
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