Brain Quotes

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Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion? Is not… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Remember that feelings or emotions emanate from the more ancient, less evolved, lower part of the human brain, while thoughts are a product of our… — Laura Schlessinger
Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand. — Donald A. Norman
I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it - loyalty to… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Design is more than just a few tricks to the eye. It's a few tricks to the brain. — Neville Brody
We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the… — Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are… — Bertrand Russell
As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever… — William E. Gladstone
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Science is all metaphor. In… — Timothy Leary
There is a moment in the history of every nation, when . . . the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become… — Marsilio Ficino
Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing. — Germaine Greer
Memory, the warder of the brain. — William Shakespeare
And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the… — Hippocrates
BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something from the man… — Ambrose Bierce
Have you tried neuroxing papers? It.'s a very easy and cheap process. You hold the page in front of your eyes and you let it… — Sydney Brenner
Here I am: My brain is open. — Paul Erdos
His [Erwin SchrÃ¶dinger's] private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was a most lovable person, independent,… — Max Born
I am delighted that I have found a new reaction to demonstrate even to the blind the structure of the interstitial stroma of the cerebral… — Camillo Golgi
I bet the human brain is a kludge — Marvin Minsky
In order to form for one's self a just notion of the operations which result in the production of thought, it is necessary to conceive… — Pierre Jean George Cabanis

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