“The pattern recognition theory of mind that I articulate in this book is based on a different fundamental unit: not the neuron… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Sasha snorted. "I have never in my extremely long life seen anyone take so long to answer a question. It's like you… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Have I ever told you how sexy your brain is?" "Finally! A man who wants me for my brain." "I want all… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“We regard promissory materialism as superstition without a rational foundation. The more we discover about the brain, the more clearly do we… — John C. Eccles Copy Share Image
Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I can't actually explain why my lines got shorter, but they did. Just as I can't explain why my early poems were… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Brain wave tests prove that when we use positive words, our "feel good" hormones flow. Positive self-talk releases endorphins and serotonin in… — Ruth Fishel Copy Share Image
The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The New Man means to develop all the three dimensions of being, all the three doors to God: the head, the dimension… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
Nothing in my life ever seemed to fade away or take its rightful place among the pantheon of experiences that constituted my… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
“But my brain, which is also I, your brain and the thoughts within it, as well as the house across the street,… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
Typically there are little fragments of specific words and images swimming around in my mind, and then at some point, I'll sit… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
I definitely agree about the future of youth football being flag. There's just more and more evidence that the youth brain is… — Ann McKee Copy Share Image
The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
From the state of the Uncarved Block comes the ability to enjoy the simple and the quiet, the natural and the plain.… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
“Such networks of neurons are built following the principle that “cells that fire together, wire together” (Hebb’s rule). In short, neurons that… — Elkhonon Goldberg Copy Share Image
Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
“When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the… — Elizabeth West Copy Share Image
You're trying to sleep off a debt that you've lumbered your brain and body with during the week, and wouldn't it be… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
“The repeated finding that people with happier, less troubled thought patterns can suffer more illness seems to defy common sense. The general… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I don't jerk off because I'm horny. I'm sort of half-chick. It's like District 9. I can fire alien weapons. I can… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
Since functional brain imaging first emerged, we have learned that there aren't very many brain regions uniquely responsible for specific tasks; most… — Joshua Greene Copy Share Image
I used to think that the times when you don't work, you should be anxious and constantly by the phone and putting… — Sophie Cookson Copy Share Image
I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The most important, the longest lasting, the strongest emotional, and the most practiced memories are the ones that are embedded the deepest… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I don’t mean fight with the… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
So many of my memories are generated by and organized around food: what I ate, what people cooked, what I cooked, what… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
