Brain Quotes

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The brain is a little saline pool that acts as a conductor, and it runs on electricity. — Judith Hooper
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
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
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
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
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
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
No brain is stronger than its weakest think. — Thomas Lansing Masson
Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'? — Henry Maudsley
Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people. — Malcolm McDowell
Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms. — Colin McGinn
Minds are simply what brains do. — Marvin Minsky
The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves. — Marvin Minsky
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
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
The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought. — Joyce Carol Oates
The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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
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
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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