The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018. I think that's a little… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Plasticity, then, in the wide sense of the word, means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence,… — William James Copy Share Image
I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
It was Lorraine in her nightie and Mo in his cap. They'd just settled their brains for a long winter's nap in… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way… — Dale Archer Copy Share Image
Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
“If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Music is supposed to be entertaining and if it touches you emotionally, so much the better. Sometimes you do it to save… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
We're physical objects, we think of ourselves as these kind of free-floating brains, but the brain is such a little part. It's… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share Image
My friend had a brilliant idea. This impressed me. It reflected an immense deal of credit on his brain. But when he… — Marvin L. Cohen Copy Share Image
Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
How vain are our fears! I thought to myself. Sometimes we fear that which our opponent (or fate) had never even considered!… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
The idea of a pseudonym had been flitting around my brain for a long time, along with its cognate, disappearance. In the… — Michael Redhill Copy Share Image
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Science is… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease;… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
George Harrison: The day after the Blue Angel audition, John showed up to rehearsal with a long list of name suggestions, and… — Alan Goldsher Copy Share Image
It was so big, that view. I’ll never remember it properly. How can anyone remember something that big? I don’t think people’s… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading – treading – till it seemed That Sense… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Kama ulikuwa ukimwambia mwanao kuwa atakuwa jambazi labda kwa sababu ya fujo zake alipokuwa mdogo, mambo mengi atakayokuwa anayafikiria au anayaota atakapopevuka… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to the laws… — Franz Joseph Gall Copy Share Image
Work kills no one, but worry has killed multitudes… Worry not only saps vitality and wastes energy, but it also seriously affects… — Orison S. Marden Copy Share Image
If you cannot always elicit a straight answer from the unconscious brain, how can you access its knowledge? Sometimes the trick is… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The difference between an amateur and a professional photographer is that the amateur thinks the camera does the work. And they treat… — David Hemmings Copy Share Image
When we have any function, whether it's language or vision or cognitive functions like memory, we aren't dealing with a straight line… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
In the traditionally taught view of perception, data from the sensorium pours into the brain, works its way up the sensory hierarchy,… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Choice is the key, because human beings are the only creatures who can choose to evolve, who can shape their destiny. Furthermore,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
Doomed Lord's Passing. For the mind of man alone is free to explore the lofty vastness of the cosmic infinite, to transcend… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
As the brain of man is the speck of dust in the universe that thinks, so the leaves—the fern and the needled… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
Most of the different types of cells in our body die and are replaced every few weeks or months. However, neurons, the… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
Knowledge enormous makes a God of me. Names, deeds, gray legends, dire events, rebellions, Majesties, sovran voices, agonies, Creations and destroyings, all… — John Keats Copy Share Image
It's the principle of it, I get a rush when I bust Some dope lines oral, that maybe somebody'll quote. That's what… — O.C Copy Share Image
Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Einstein said that we only use at most 8% of our brain’s capacity. I know this because one of my favorite things… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision... This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
