Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly. — Colin Baker Copy Share Image
Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials. — Henry Markram Copy Share Image
The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain. — David Bellos Copy Share Image
The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is,… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
“The human brain has a monstrous ability to re-create memories of such clarity that the rest of the body loses all sense… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“It is a great irony of the evolution of the human brain: Our strength is also our weakness. Our asset is our… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“He didn't believe animals could think, not in the way he defined the term, but he wasn't much impressed with human thinking,… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
“There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Listening to the data is important... but so is experience and intuition. After all, what is intuition at its best but large… — Steve Lohr Copy Share Image
Millions of years ago, we evolved three basic drives: the sex drive, romantic love and attachment to a long-term partner. These circuits… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
What kind of god is it that some human brain can shatter the illusions that have been built up around such a… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
It is unmatched in its ability to think, to communicate, and to reason. Most striking of all, it has a unique awareness… — Peter Coveney 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
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
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
“Beauty is irrelevant to human life, especially in a relationship. What you today perceive as beautiful and special, over time, becomes not… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
As human, we all have the same human potential, unless there is some sort of retarded brain function. The wonderful human brain… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
“We still don’t have a clue about what’s going on in the human brain. We have theories; we just don’t know for… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“The obvious alternative to blaming the parent is to conclude that there is something amiss or lacking in the child. If we… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“People sometimes ask what it’s like to be a surgeon who works with the living human brain each day. I think sometimes… — Peter Black Copy Share Image
Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“So what you've actually got is traumatized children. When children are traumatized that affects how they feel about themselves, which is deeply… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“A half century after Nidetch’s Mallomar binges, scientists had developed a technology that could see cravings erupting, like solar flares, inside the… — Mark Schatzker Copy Share Image
“Whether the human mind can advance or not, is a question too little discussed, for nothing can be more dangerous than to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Single trees are extraordinary; trees in number more extraordinary still. To walk in a wood is to find fault with Socrates's declaration… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“The Soviets were not 50% right, they were entirely wrong. They weren’t quantitatively wrong about the amount of variance due to the… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose. — Donal Henahan Copy Share Image
In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode. — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise. — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn't stop until you get to… — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
“whether it is an engine or a human brain,—exercise or deteriorate is the law of life.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . . — Anonymous Copy Share Image
