Brains Quotes · Page 12

There are lots of people who can't think seriously without injuring their brains

— John Jay Chapman

I was always taught that a catcher has to be the brains of the team.

— Carlos Ruiz

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”

— Woodrow Wilson

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

— George Horace Lorimer

The thing I'm most interested in is the nervous system. How do brains grow? How do genes build complicated nervous systems?

— Sydney Brenner

“How can you talk if you haven't got a brain? I don't know, but some people without brains do an awful lot…

— Noel Langley

You may reason that we have [brains] to perceive the world or to think, and that's completely wrong.

— Daniel Wolpert

“studies have shown that with brisk daily walks over a period of months, certain parts of people’s brains actually get bigger.”

— B. Smith

“Because we don’t fully understand how our brains work, we do dumb things. We try to talk on our cell phones and…

— John Medina

It's very important for us to see that science is done by people, not just brains but whole human beings, and sometimes…

— Alan Alda

“Homo sapiens, the brain accounts for about 2–3 per cent of total body weight, but it consumes 25 per cent of the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“humans are born with brains structured to make sense of the world, and that often leads to beliefs that go beyond any…

— David DiSalvo

Our retinas and brains have been wired by a hundred million years of evolution to find outlines in a visually complex landscape.…

— Seth Shostak

Our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at.…

— Richard Dawkins

Just as our brains fill in the details of an image our eyes record only roughly, so, too, do our brains employ…

— Leonard Mlodinow

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination…

— Anonymous

The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index... It's literally because of the way our brains are wired.

— James O'Shaughnessy

We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!

— Ellen DeGeneres

I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.

— Jim Goldberg

“But some of our cells, like the ones in our brains, don’t renew. They age, and age us.”

— Nicola Yoon

For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“our brains are happy to fill in the blanks with causal relationships that don't really exist.”

— David DiSalvo

We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.

— Euripides

Chaos usually won't created by many brains. It usually created by an idle brain...

— Suganthramesh

“If you put Durant's brains in a thimble full of water they'd look like a ship lost in the middle of the…

— Scott Lynch

The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.

— Julian Barbour

'The cloud' is effectively an augmentation of our brains' memories.

— John Gruber

No, indeed; I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all.

— L. Frank Baum

“The neural structure of our brains is constantly changing. So why do we think we can achieve AGI using immovable components?”

— Douglas E. Richards

“Our brains are made for love. Not fear. Not performance. Not aggression. But LOVE.”

— Caroline Leaf

“Don't we all live in our heads? Where else could we possibly exist? Our brains are the universe.”

— Kate DiCamillo

I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.

— Terry Wogan

But for my own example, I'd never believe one little kid could have so much brains!

— Bill Watterson

In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Children are born with brains, NOT habits and beliefs. They become what they see and hear and examples shown them.

— Nishan Panwar

The problem with you, son, is that all your brains are in your head. (to a Liverpool trainee)

— Bill Shankly

When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.

— Richard Dawkins

There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu, almost like…

— Ellen Pompeo

“The brain is always on. It is a myth that we use only some small percentage of our brains. The truth is…

— Gregory Berns