Brain Quotes

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[It's] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we… — Shawn Achor
Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent. — Paul J. Zak
Oxytocin connects us to other people; oxytocin makes us feel what other people feel. And it's easy to cause people's brains to release oxytocin. Let… — Paul J. Zak
I am a movement chauvinist. — Daniel Wolpert
There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn't affect the way… — Daniel Wolpert
We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements. — Daniel Wolpert
You may reason that we have [brains] to perceive the world or to think, and that's completely wrong. — Daniel Wolpert
[Language allows you] to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you,… — Mark Pagel
Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for… — Mark Pagel
You need to understand how human beings bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to meet and, indeed, to mate.… — Matt Ridley
There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Here is a neuron that fires when I reach and grab something, but it also fires when I watch Joe reaching and grabbing something. ...… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations. — Oliver Sacks
Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You… — Oliver Sacks
What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness. — Louise Leakey
I realized, 'Oh my gosh! I'm having a stroke! I'm having a stroke!' The next thing my brain says to me is, 'Wow! This is… — Jill Bolte Taylor
In the course of four hours, I watched my brain completely deteriorate in its ability to process all information. On the morning of the hemorrhage,… — Jill Bolte Taylor
Our right hemisphere, it thinks in pictures and it learns kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies. Information ... explodes into this enormous collage of… — Jill Bolte Taylor
Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space.… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate.… — Matthieu Ricard

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