“The human brain is an obstinate beast. It doesn’t like being told what to do.” — Scott Weems Copy Share Image
The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
We learn more about how human brains work. And that leads us to ideas about how to make human brains work better. — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Heart always speaks the truth. It lies in the human brain, which it replaces. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If the cells and fibres in one human brain were all stretched out end to end, they would certainly reach to the… — Colin Blakemore Copy Share Image
It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of young people… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“Her disintegration went down a shaft of phases, every one more racking than the last; for the human brain can become the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior.… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
“That was perfectly normal – after all a computer is not like a human brain; with people all you need is to… — Mai Jia Copy Share Image
The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100… — Gerald Fischbach Copy Share Image
Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
You know how in sports baseball players, they hit home runs. Football players, they throw and they score touchdowns. I get to… — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa Copy Share Image
“The purpose of all of this (left hemisphere's way of choosing denial or repression over considering an anomaly) is to impose stability… — V.S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“More daunting is the natural technology of the brain itself. True North can simulate 1 million neurons and 256 million synapses. The… — Kevin Baker Copy Share Image
To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone.… — John Hall Gladstone Copy Share Image
“percent of the rodent brain and 90 percent of the human brain. The ratio of cell number of astrocytes in the cortex… — Andrew Koob Copy Share Image
“We have seen that the individual’s brain circuits are decisively influenced by the emotional states of the parents, in the context of… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Sometimes I suspect that there are two prototypes of philosophers who write about humans - I call them "celestials" and "terrestrials", without… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
“As the number of inhabitants grew, so did the amount of information required to coordinate their affairs. Between the years 3500 BC… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We're not very different from one another, not different at all, in fact. We're all just people with the same needs, the… — Harry Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when I meet old friends, it reminds me how quickly time passes. And it makes me wonder if we've utilized our… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Ah. Well, it stands for Freedom From Morality. We don't think healthy amorality happens naturally." "But you're not amoral," I pointed out.… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
“To talk about arson is to talk about buildings burning down. To talk about the term 'pyromania' is really to talk about… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
“Practical affairs task the human brain throughout the day. At night, the mind takes a deserved hiatus to consider the impossible and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Taleb argued that the limitations of the human brain resulted in our species’ tendency to squeeze unrelated facts and events into cause-and-effect… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Clearly, the inhabitants of stable democracies find it hard to appreciate what they have: 'You don't know what you've got 'til it's… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“Philosophy and Psychology The latter is study of researched human brain and behavior The former is the behavior after studying the human… — Bhavik Sarkhedi Copy Share Image
Our ancestors relied upon their advanced brains to survive during times of food shortage, and fortunately, the human brain is able to… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people don't get sick from bacteria or a virus- -living organisms alien to the human body- -but from the human brain… — Buket Uzuner Copy Share Image
“The comedian Emo Philips once said, “I used to think the human brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“Constructing models is something the human brain is very good at. When we are asleep it is called dreaming; when we are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“If human brain is like the world, then positive thinking must be the size of mountain, and negative thinking must be the… — Nikita Tak Copy Share Image
Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's something about the human brain, that it actually has a predilection towards negativity, which served us really well when we lived… — Moby Copy Share Image
