The dolphins and whales have a brain that is actually bigger in proportion to their size than we do. They are very… — Owsley Stanley Copy Share Image
...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Pain is the body's way of telling the brain it's in trouble. Similarly, confusion is the brain's way of telling the body,… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
When 'Brain on Fire' premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2016, I fixated on inconsequential things like what dress I would… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
To build and strengthen new connections, the brain needs the challenge of fresh and unusual stimuli. … There's a lot of evidence… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Entertainers have no brain...I get frustrated when I hear things like that from people. We have different goals. We have our own… — Seohyun Copy Share Image
I like languages. I like working on different accents. I speak English, French and Spanish. I'd love to learn more but I… — Francois Arnaud Copy Share Image
Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The vast majority of abortions are performed between the seventh and tenth week when the baby is already sucking his thumb, recoiling… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I had a brain cancer specialist sit in my living room and tell me that he would never take radiation if he… — Ralph W. Moss Copy Share Image
The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
A fixed habit is supported by old, well-worn pathways in the brain. When you make conscious choices to change a habit, you… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
There are several patients - there are thousands of patients, tens of thousands of patients, that carry either a stimulator in the… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from… — Ellen Meloy Copy Share Image
What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get… — Susan Boyle Copy Share Image
College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and… — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
“The mind and body are linked together in a meshwork of oxygen, nutrients, hormones, and neuron health. Physical exercise drives that meshwork,… — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I've always zoomed through life in a vain attempt to keep up with my sprinting brain. If I have to choose between… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
You don't have a work brain and a home brain. You have a single brain, one you carry with you wherever you… — John Medina Copy Share Image
That's the case with these exponential technologies; our brains, they struggle with it. We live in a world that is global and… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
“A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and… — Tana French 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
But we are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts,… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains. — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I guess I'm fortunate in that two things I always wanted to do, since I was 16, were play music and get… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
It's extremely important for people to be informed and to be educated and to know what's going in their community and in… — Brad Williams Copy Share Image
Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Anything crime related and anything excessively bloody and violent, my brain immediately goes to the science. I think about, "How did you… — Bex Taylor-Klaus Copy Share Image
Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player's uniform. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of… — Jacqueline Leo Copy Share Image
Putting a rheumatologist at the head of a committee that arguably was going to have more influence over brain research than any… — Steve Fainaru Copy Share Image
I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories,… — John Eccles Copy Share Image
“There is no relationship between brain size and intelligence. There is however a strong correlation between the size of the brain and… — Andre the BFG Copy Share Image
I suspect that pleasure is mainly used to turn off parts of the brain so you can keep fresh the memories of… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image