Brain Quotes

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I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio… — Ted Strickland
Money was a much saner goal than adoration. They'll both drive you crazy but if I'm going to blow my brains out for five years,… — Glenn Frey
That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility of science and… — Susan Jacoby
What sort of a brain-dead idiot does it take to actually believe that gun laws will prevent criminals from obtaining and carrying guns? — Neal Boortz
Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a desired… — Alison Gopnik
Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could… — Elizabeth Moon
I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain. — Elizabeth Moon
Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objectiveâ€”even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth. — Jeff VanderMeer
Iâ€™ve got...ways of tricking my brain into getting what I need out of it — Jeff VanderMeer
Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the… — Clarence Darrow
Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure. — Anne Bradstreet
Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile, fully-obedient, 'safe' organisms. — William Sims
I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor. — Lou Gramm
The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall its millions of… — Eric Kandel
It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather than to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of… — Stacy Schiff
Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live? — Nellie L. McClung
You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer. — John Searle
Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software, not the hardware, increasingly philosophers have come… — Patricia Churchland
I don't like the fact that no one has any imagination anymore. It doesn't pay to be a dreamer because all they really want you… — Joe Meno
But if itâ€™s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that… — Utah Phillips

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