The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I have no sense of direction; I never know where I am. When I back up a car, I'm more likely to… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Without him (Jean-Christophe) I would never have understood the splendour of taking free andindependent action as an individual. Up until this stolen… — Sijie Dai Copy Share Image
The well-being of a neuron depends on its ability to communicate with other neurons. Studies have shown that electrical and chemical stimulation… — Lisa Genova Copy Share Image
Stealing home is one of the most sensational plays in baseball. If the run thus scored is the winning tally, the play… — Billy Evans Copy Share Image
Most theoretical work since the proposals of Hebb (1949) and Hayek (1952) has relied upon particular forms of dependent synaptic rules in… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
But I guess the nice thing about driving a car is that the physical act of driving itself occupies a good chunk… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
There is no one part of the brain which recognizes or responds emotionally to music. Instead, there are many different parts responding… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“When looking at the brains of injured patients, Paul Broca (1824–1880) discovered that the left temporal cortex was responsible for speech. When… — Andrew Koob Copy Share Image
To fly! to live as airmen live! Like them to ride the skyways from horizon to horizon, across rivers and forests! To… — Henri Mignet Copy Share Image
I almost flunked first grade and also the second, third, forth, and fifth; but my younger brother was in the grade behind… — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
I studied Hitchcock and Josef von Sternberg under Richard Dillard at Hollins, and that year under his tutelage just completely rewired my… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
Ponzi and all of his successors tap into a fundamental part of human nature. One part of our brain tells us this… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
“Because the brain models our sense of self as just another instance of a thing, it is easy for us to project… — Sean Hastings Copy Share Image
“The mother was holding a baby, had a stroller with what looked like twin girls around three, and had a five-year-old boy… — Eileen Cook Copy Share Image
Information is Power. Think For Yourself. CAUTION: proper use of the brain is not endorsed by federal governments nor huge corporations involved… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
In the course of four hours, I watched my brain completely deteriorate in its ability to process all information. On the morning… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
I didn't relate well to people my age. Maybe the truth was that I didn't relate well to people, period. Even my… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Copyright and Trademark are completely different things. Copyright prevents anyone from copying this article and posting it somewhere else. Copyright happens instantaneously… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
it was like this. the brain could no longer bear the worries and pains that were imposed on it. it said: "i'm… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
If I've operated on 8,000 brain tumours, if 7,999 patients were satisfied, if I'd done the right thing, if I have funded… — Charles Teo Copy Share Image
There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes. When the sound box is filled, no music can come… — Rumi Copy Share Image
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Each step is not too improbable for us to countenance, but when you add them up cumulatively over millions of years, you… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I've talked to a lot of artists - painters, writers, musicians - many of whom have had great ideas on trains. The… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet… — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Going a little further into the future, we'll start literally connecting to machines. Some of my colleagues at MIT here - some… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
People try to apply directly results from the cognitive neurosciences directly to classroom practice and I have to tell you I am… — John Medina Copy Share Image
An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
As the founding lead of the Google Brain team, former director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and now overall lead of… — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
At some point, we're going to have to get to the point where, before you play football, I'm going to test you… — Bud Grant Copy Share Image
I'm totally active. I am just this side of hyper. I jog and go to the gym every day. When I'm on… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
I was so frivolous for so many years. It was so much fun, but you feel guilty about the brain energy you… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
I greatly enjoyed working as a freelance journalist, because it gets you out of the house, and it gets you talking to… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
