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Brain Quotes by Lewis Thomas
- The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure,…
- The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going…
- We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing…
- Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a…
- I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that…
- We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to…
- I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is an…
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- Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think… — Margaret Atwood
- All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits… — Diane Ackerman
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your… — Francis Bacon
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