Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“Business of all kinds, over the centuries, had atrophied certain sense receptors and areas of the human brain, so that for most… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“The human heart needs only the bare elements to survive, the human brain wants to the limitlessness of tolerance. Finding yourself is… — Zephyr McIntyre Copy Share Image
The human brain is at particularly high risk for damage by free radicals because of its high degree of metabolism compared to… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
“The human brain has billions of neurons and hundreds of billions of interconnections. It can process more than two million bits of… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
Human brain is the most outstanding object in world. It functions 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It functions right… — Azgraybebly Josland Copy Share Image
“During periods of starvation or fasting, the human brain can very easily switch over to using ketones as an alternative to glucose.” — Eric Westman MD Copy Share Image
The human brain is a product of natural selection. In the face of scarcity, our hominid great-great-uncles were unable to compete against… — Justin Rosenstein Copy Share Image
“We walk through another part of the building. While we wait for an elevator, Dr. Kenyon unfolds a dinner-size napkin and holds… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“There is more information in one thimble of reality than can be understood by a galaxy of human brains. It is beyond… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Vulcan Inc. is a unique organization that unites commercial, philanthropic, research, policy, and technology innovation. Our goals are ambitious - from saving… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
There are so many kinds of madness, so many ways in which the human brain may go wrong; and so often it… — James Oliver Curwood Copy Share Image
“Research on the human brain has shown it is predisposed to think in the terms of a story.36 This predisposition is continuously… — Isaiah Hankel Copy Share Image
“human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells.… — Michael Hopkins 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
“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
“In the cloudy swirl of misleading ideas surrounding public discussion of addiction, there’s one that stands out: the misconception that drug taking… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The prediction that the Singularity—an expansion of human intelligence by a factor of trillions through merger with its nonbiological form—will occur within… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“The place where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the shell of a giant… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“In all of these areas, the human brain is asked to do and handle more than ever before. We are dealing with… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Whenever a noise exceeds our processing abilities—we can’t decipher all the different sound waves hitting our hair cells— the mind . .… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
“The human brain can be compared to a modern flight simulator in several respects. Like a flight simulator, it constructs and continuously… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
I guess that is the strange part of the human brain that people have studied for eons - is hatred and self-hatred.… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
The human brain works in, so far, mysterious and wondrous ways that are completely different than the ways that computers calculate. Things… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
“The Human brain is a hotbed of imagination, capable of taking a simple stimulus and magnifying it many times greater than it… — Red Phoenix Copy Share Image
“Glowing screens, increasingly foldable, portable, companionable, anticipating any possible question the human brain might generate.” — Jhumpa Lahiri 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
“One cubic inch of nanotube circuitry, once fully developed, would be up to one hundred million times more powerful than the human… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“The human brain is a cultural artifact. We don't load culture into a virgin brain like software loading into a computer; rather,… — Lisa Feldman Barrett 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
“It can be argued that the computer is humanity’s attempt to replicate the human brain. This is perhaps an unattainable goal. However,… — Ammaar Shaukat Reshi Copy Share Image
The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and… — Ray Stevens Copy Share Image
...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The human brain long ago evolved a mechanism for rewarding us when we encountered new information: a little shot of dopamine in… — Daniel Levitin 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
“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
“What then drove forward the evolution of the massive human brain during those 2 million years? Frankly, we don’t know. Another singular… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
All of imagination - everything that we think, we feel, we sense - comes through the human brain. And once we create… — Jay S. Walker Copy Share Image
