Able Quote by Brian Greene

Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even…

— Cleveland Amory

We cannot without becoming cats, perfectly understand the cat mind.

— St. George Jackson Mivart

Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?

— William James

One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the…

— Edward Boyden

Since the brain is unlike any other structure in the known universe, it seems reasonable to expect that our understanding of its functioning -…

— Richard Restak

Sure, our three-pound brains might be inadequate to understand the universe. But perhaps they're just good enough to build something that can.

— Seth Shostak

There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.

— John Lydon

“Our brains are the most complicated objects that we have so far encountered in the Universe. We are far from simple. Indeed, were our…

— John D. Barrow

Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.

— Roger Caras

It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe…

— Francis Crick

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

— Anonymous

Sometimes we have to be cat, sometimes rat, but eventually we evolve to become more intellectual.

— Jatin Tanwer