Brain Quotes

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For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school. For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going. — Brie Larson
At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit of the eye,… — Alastair Reynolds
The brain can be a dangerous thing. Even more so if you haven't got one. — Dave Courtney
Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience. — Daniel J. Siegel
I love jell-o. I love the way it comes in rainbow colours, wiggles and jiggles and looks like brains. — Megan McDonald
As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take time to travel from… — Thomas Metzinger
Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the scientific geniuses who… — Mark Frauenfelder
The teeth on [the viperfish] are so long that if they closed inside the mouth of the fish, it would actually impale its own brain. — Edith Widder
Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something. — Unknown Author
I wouldn't even call snowboarding a sport. Â For me it's just a way of life. Â It's a chance to finally shut your brain… — Travis Rice
Technologies for stimulating the brain and controlling the mind can have benefits, but they have a dark side that military and intelligence planners have been… — Nick Begich
Learning the notes on the fretboard is key to any guitarist's development on the instrument, and [Guitar] Trainer HD is a neat way to get… — Bryan Beller
We see with our brains, not with our eyes. — Paul Bach-y-Rita
The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brainâ€™s own ability to remember… — Douglas Rushkoff
Meditation suffers from a towering PR problem.â€¦ If you can get past the cultural baggage, though, what youâ€™ll find is that meditation is simply exercise… — Dan Harris
You are upset because one of your actors got on the wrong lane doing something with the wrong people. And you want to blame somebody… — Charles Manson
There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my… — Wallace Stegner
Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock… — Barbara Kingsolver
The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by… — Nadine Gordimer
The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead. — Carl Jung

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