“It’s worth noting up front that I have always conceived of my mind as a digestive organ. A stomach for processing knowledge,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Media are really nothing more than extensions of us. It is we, not the media, who are metaphysical. Metaphysics is part and… — Peter K. Fallon Copy Share Image
The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows… — Michael Gazzaniga Copy Share Image
A lot of people talk about sometime around 2030, machines will be more powerful than the human brain, in terms of the… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
“We can see how our world is, in many ways, becoming more complex, fast-paced, and unpredictable. As a result, the problems we… — Thomas Homer-Dixon Copy Share Image
“During the twentieth century, neuroscientists and psychologists also came to more fully appreciate the astounding complexity of the human brain. Inside our… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
“What can you say about pain? Words can trace only the shadow of the thing itself. The reality of hard, sharp physical… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on… — Daniel Tammet 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
“Perhaps the most dangerous by-product of the Age of Intellect is the unconscious growth of the idea that the human brain can… — John Bagot Glubb Copy Share Image
“Ninety-Five percent of the things we worry about in life never actually happen but that's the human brain for you. It can… — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to find some secret places in the human brain because I think movies tend to be too rational sometimes.… — Quentin Dupieux Copy Share Image
Energy experts have announced the development of a new fuel made from human brain tissue. It's called assohol. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Mazes in the nodules on murex shells and in the textures of sycamore bark and inside the hollow bones of eagles. None… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Scientific Man and the Bible'. By… — H.L. Mencken 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
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
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. — George Jessel Copy Share Image
“It is customary for adults to forget how hard and dull school is. The learning by memory all the basic things one… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
With its hundred billion nerve cells, with their hundred trillion interconnections, the human brain is the most complex phenomenon in the known… — Steven Rose Copy Share Image
Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when working at full efficiency, not unlike myself! — Colin Baker Copy Share Image
“Liberation technology creates wealth, and open-source technology creates wealth. In both instances the 'center of gravity' for dramatic change toward resilience and… — Robert David Steele Copy Share Image
