Brain Quotes

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Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows. — William Shakespeare
It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach to grammar, pioneered… — Niels Kaj Jerne
To obtain the pure silence necessary for the disciple, the heart and emotions, the brain and its intellectualisms, have to be put aside. Both are… — Mabel Collins
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the… — John Eccles
In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only valuable in so… — Vissarion Belinsky
Brain surgeons earn 10 times that of a general practitioner... it pays to be an expert. — Allan Pease
Why doesn't my stupid brain understand that I always wanted to be you? No you; no,no..you.Hey,you! now what are you smiling at. — Gopichand Lagadapati
As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space. — Charles Scott Sherrington
The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is an act not… — Charles Scott Sherrington
It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in physics, where leading… — Dennis Flanagan
But since the brain, as well as the cerebellum, is composed of many parts, variously figured, it is possible, that nature, which never works in… — Georg Prochaska
The wreath of cigarette smoke which curls about the head of the growing lad holds his brain in an iron grip which prevents it from… — Hudson Maxim
Science and religion are very much alike. Both are imaginative and creative aspects of the human mind. The appearance of a conflict is a result… — John Eccles
Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT of the MOON,… — Robert Sutton Harrington
In running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His adversary lies within him, in… — Glenn Cunningham
No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people… — Don Kardong
I thought, man, if you could run 100 miles, you'd be in this Zen state. You'd be the f**king Buddha. Bringing peace and a smile… — Jenn Shelton
The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Creativity comes from the spiritual realm, the collective consciousness. And the mind is in a different realm than the molecules of the brain. The brain… — Candace Pert
She explained that the bullet had entered through the side of my left eye where there was a scar, traveled eighteen inches down to my… — Malala Yousafzai

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