Brain Quotes

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We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle.… — Carl Sagan
My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology,… — Carl Sagan
Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping a neurobiology of what makes… — Robert M. Sapolsky
Maybe if we lie down our brains will work. — Jerry Seinfeld
Within the book and volume of thy brain... — William Shakespeare
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain — William Shakespeare
True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. — William Shakespeare
Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound. — William Shakespeare
What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps… — William Shakespeare
So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which… — Bernard Baruch
My brain cannot conceive how old my body is. — Michael Douglas
It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the ad-vancing years,… — George Sand
We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating… — Paulo Coelho
Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge.… — Clifford Stoll
Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that… — Diane Ackerman
A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head.… — Aesop
The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in… — Aristotle
The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know. — Isaac Asimov
No, indeed; I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all. — L. Frank Baum
There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons.… — Tim Berners-Lee

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