A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain. — Jackie French Copy Share Image
The number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer. — Jeremy Bernstein Copy Share Image
Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Neurons that fire together wire together. You can rewire your brain for higher consciousness by focusing on love. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once. — Hollis Frampton Copy Share Image
“The system prefers that our neurons solve differential equations rather than smell our neighbours.5” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Neurons that fire together wire together.” What this means in terms of memory is that the more intense the activity is between… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
One part puzzle mixed with one part racer with just a dash of art and music just to blend everything together, 'Dyad'… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
We know a certain amount about neurons. You can do fMRI and watch parts of the brain light up. But what happens… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
We started all this research way back in the early 1990s, developing a technique that allows us to record the electrical signals… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
It's this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what's it made of? It's made… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Such a bandwidth! God, who may not have a brain made of neurons, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For the last century of neuroscience, lots of people have tried to control neurons using all sorts of different technologies - pharmacology… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
“Consistent and chronic distractions have the power we give it focal access, to rob us of our long-term historic memory of unhurried… — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
“The really amazing thing about all this is no matter what you believe,it took some doing to get from a point where… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Imagine something a million times more powerful than your smartphone that is the size of a brain cell interfacing with your biological… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
If my dramatic career doesn't work out, I will go on to research and find cures for Alzheimer's or Parkinson's and other… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
“I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“Our brains contain one hundred billion nerve cells (neurons). Each neuron makes links with ten thousand other neurons to form an incredible… — Nessa Carey Copy Share Image
Every thought, feeling, and emotion creates a molecule known as a neuropeptide. Neuropeptides travel throughout your body and hook onto receptor sites… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Concepts of memory tend to reflect the technology of the times. Plato and Aristotle saw memories as thoughts inscribed on wax tablets… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The first attempts to consider the behavior of so-called "random neural nets" in a systematic way have led to a series of… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
The most obvious – and easiest! – way to gain perspective is to put your work away for a while. The truth… — Elizabeth Sims 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
Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
