Our beliefs do not sit passively in our brains waiting to be confirmed or contradicted by incoming information. Instead, they play a… — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
“Our brains are meaning machines. What we understand as “meaning” is generated by the associations our brain makes between two or more… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I'm the youngest of four siblings and the baby of the family. My family just treated me like anyone else growing up.… — Jazz Jennings Copy Share Image
I'm so envious of certain actors that have that natural facility to hear a cadence and the rhythm of an accent, that… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain… — Eartha Kitt Copy Share Image
Something was causing me not to be able to sleep, and then after a while your brain doesn't want to turn off… — William Regal Copy Share Image
The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Such a bandwidth! God, who may not have a brain made of neurons, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Possibilities in racing tactics are almost unlimited, as in a game of chess, for every move there is a counter, for… — Franz Stampfl Copy Share Image
It can no longer be an afterthought in a child's development that the analytical side is not of equal to the creative… — Johnathon Schaech Copy Share Image
For the last century of neuroscience, lots of people have tried to control neurons using all sorts of different technologies - pharmacology… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
“In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Words may be either the servants or masters. If the former they may safely guide us in the way of truth. If… — George Horne Copy Share Image
Doctors finally figured out whats wrong with a boys brain; on the left side, there is nothing right; and on the right… — Bilal Zahoor Copy Share Image
Sports commentating is the answer for a restless brain like mine. I can never get bored because there is an infinite amount… — Clare Balding Copy Share Image
I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah,… — Adam DeVine Copy Share Image
Resentment, anger, frustration, worry, disappointment-negative emotional states, justified or not, take a toll on your heart, brain and body. Don't let justified… — Howard Martin Copy Share Image
Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
New research into cognitive functioning - how the brain works - proves that bullet points are the least effective way to deliver… — Carmine Gallo Copy Share Image
Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves? — Joy Adamson Copy Share Image
I like being known for being good at maths and having a brain. If I've been asked to do something but it's… — Rachel Riley Copy Share Image
The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We are not humans because we've invented a different type of brain cell, a different type of brain chemical. We are the… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier… — Robert J. Waldinger Copy Share Image
Women should have labels on their foreheads saying, 'Government Health Warning: women can seriously damage your brains, genitals, current account, confidence, razor… — Jeffrey Bernard Copy Share Image
Kids are different from adults. They are not as developed as far as brain science, controlling impulses, and maturity, and fall prey… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
If whatever men know comes through their brain without the Holy Spirit regenerating their spirit, then their knowledge will help them not… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies. — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“God calls big trees out of small seeds, so He prepares great monuments out of small minds. He will definitely call those… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
In the midst of all the chaos swirling through your brain, all the disorganization and impulsiveness, the condition (ADHD) also seems to… — David Neeleman Copy Share Image
It was always important to me to make sure Pooh came across as much more than a bear of very little brain.… — Jim Broadbent Copy Share Image
Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
