Brain Quotes

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Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread that… — Wilder Penfield
My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain… — Wilder Penfield
Mind, brain, and body make the man, and the man is capable of so much! — Wilder Penfield
Brains, like cabbages, are beautiful-but in a different way. Cabbage heads are dumb and sterile, whereas brains are personal, intelligent and vibrant. — Carl Pfeiffer
The brain is not, like the liver, heart and other internal organs, capable from the moment of birth of all the functions which it ever… — Unknown Author
The brain is biology's greatest challenge. Perhaps in a sense it is the greatest challenge for science as a whole, beyond moon landings, the ultimate… — Steven Rose
With its hundred billion nerve cells, with their hundred trillion interconnections, the human brain is the most complex phenomenon in the known universe - always,… — Steven Rose
The brain, to be sure, is indeed the physical embodiment of the mind, the organ through which the mind finds expression and through which it… — Unknown Author
The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams. — Richard Selzer
The brain seems to be made up of a bewildering complexity of parts, and the cells within the parts seem to be characterized by an… — Unknown Author
If it is mind that we are searching the brain, then we are supposing the brain to be much more than a telephone-exchange. We are… — Charles Scott Sherrington
Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern-always a meaningful pattern-though never an abiding one. — Charles Scott Sherrington
He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord. — Charles Scott Sherrington
Your brain receives, stores, and processes information, dispenses results, and controls your biological equipment. When properly programmed, computers can do likewise, except that they control… — John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth
The peculiar fascination of the brain lies in the fact that there is probably no other object of scientific enquiry about which we know at… — Unknown Author
Before brains there was no color or sound in the universe, nor was there any flavor or aroma and probably little sense and no feeling… — Roger Wolcott Sperry
There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by which brains worked… — Roger Wolcott Sperry
The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that no… — Roger Wolcott Sperry
We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and… — Nicolas Steno
There are those among us who would have us say that the mysteries of the brain are completely solved and little needs to be added… — Nicolas Steno

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