Human brain Quote by Anthony Doerr

“I now argue that entry into Upper Palaeolithic caves was probably seen as virtually indistinguishable from entry into the mental vortex that leads to…

— James David Lewis-Williams

“Inside our skulls are fish, reptile and shrew brains, as well as the highest centers that allow us to integrate information in our unique…

— Ian Tattersall

“I appreciated that all animals have some form of mental life that reflects the architecture of their nervous system.”

— Oliver Sacks

“My brain is a vast, barren, jokeless plain where wolves howl at the moon over rocky overhangs and the wind kicks up twists of…

— Craig Silvey

“Oh, dear God, you don't actually have a brain, do you, it's more a filigreed spiderweb, with little chambers in it where trained monkeys…

— Glen David Gold

“Thinking about such things soothed the creature as it dug at the base of a tall oak tree, deep into the ground, covering itself…

— Joe DeRouen

“Like when an owl spots a mouse. Under it's nest. Where it's got bones of other mice piled up.”

— David Nickel

The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.

— Carl Jung

“The oak sleeps in the acorn. The bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs.…

— Napoleon Hill

The modern geography of the brain has a deliciously antiquated feel to it - rather like a medieval map with the known world encircled…

— David Bainbridge

“What mazes there are in this world. The branches of trees, the filigree of roots, the matrix of crystals, the streets her father recreated…

— Anthony Doerr

“Certainly, the sensory deprivation afforded by the remote, silent and totally dark chambers, such as the Diverticule of the Felines in Lascaux and the…

— James David Lewis-Williams