Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won't come in.… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
All that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white).… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls.… — Joel Davis Copy Share Image
In April 2007 I learned that Yves Saint Laurent had a brain tumor, and he died on June 1, 2008. During those… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
It is a funny thing what the brain will do with memories and how it will treasure them and finally bring them… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman,… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Music is very transporting. I'll hear a song for the first time and I rarely listen to the lyrics. I picture that… — Josh McDermitt Copy Share Image
Consider a cow. A cow doesn't have the problem-solving skill of a chimpanzee, which has discovered how to get termites out of… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
At Car and Driver, we were convinced that the automobile, as we knew and loved it, was as dead as the passenger… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
Recently, the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke talked about the ways the lives of human beings will be changed in the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Insomniacs will be familiar with that disastrous moment as you lie there in the dark, with your eyes shut, when you think,… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
Exercise helps me with stress. It changes your brain chemistry. I turn to Ashtanga yoga when I feel the need to relax.… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
This is the very heart of true morality--not to struggle, not to fight with any weapons, for one's self alone--but to struggle… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
“Something about the structure of my brain, its associative, porous, open-endedness, was defenseless against the ever-enlarging Web. Every video, news story, photo,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The human brain long ago evolved a mechanism for rewarding us when we encountered new information: a little shot of dopamine in… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
“Aggressive airplane passengers probably have a bad case of Altitude Sickness. Many people are hypoxic at airplane cruising altitude. They would be… — Steven Magee 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I went to Seattle as just another geek in the food chain, thinking, "Well, in my own puny little way, I'd rather… — Jello Biafra 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
We have about three hours of homework a night, and our evening study period is only two hours, so if you want… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
