Brain Quotes
4501 quotes by 2714 authors
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The brain is a little saline pool that acts as a conductor, and it runs on electricity.
— Judith Hooper
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The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed…
— David H. Hubel
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Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something…
— David H. Hubel
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The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions.
— Eric Kandel
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In a structure as complex as the human brain a multitude of things can go wrong. The wonder is that for most people the brain…
— Seymour S. Kety
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Basically there are two types of animals: animals, and animals that have no brains; they are called plants. They don't need a nervous system because…
— Rodolfo Llinas
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An interest in the brain requires no justification other than a curiosity to know why we are here, what we are doing here, and where…
— Paul D. MacLean
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No brain is stronger than its weakest think.
— Thomas Lansing Masson
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Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'?
— Henry Maudsley
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Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
— Malcolm McDowell
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Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms.
— Colin McGinn
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Minds are simply what brains do.
— Marvin Minsky
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The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.
— Marvin Minsky
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For, as the substance of the brain, like that of the other solids of our body, is nearly incompressible, the quantity of blood within the…
— Alexander Monro
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Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile sensory nerve fibers,…
— Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking.
— Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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If we could look through the skull into the brain of a consciously thinking person, and if the place of optimal excitability were luminous, then…
— Ivan Pavlov
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It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet.
— Wilder Penfield
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The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.
— Wilder Penfield
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