Brain Quotes

4501 Brain quotes by 2589 unique authors

We live longer and healthier lives than ever before. Animal research has improved the treatment of infections, helped with immunisation, improved cancer treatment and had… — Robert Winston
While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious… — Robert Winston
No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact… — Tom Wolfe
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why?… — Virginia Woolf
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould… — Virginia Woolf
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart. — Frank Lloyd Wright
What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the… — Nicholas A. Christakis
Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy… — Felix Dennis
Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed… — Frans de Waal
Blushing is thought to be linked to increased levels of norepinephrine in the brain, which may be associated with romantic feelings. It signals that we… — Helen Fisher
When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment. — Helen Fisher
The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself. — Helen Fisher
Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love. — Helen Fisher
Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too. — Helen Fisher
The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted. — Helen Fisher
Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love. — Helen Fisher
There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going to change memories… — Helen Fisher
From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each influenced by a… — Helen Fisher
There were real reasons that you were attracted to somebody originally. The brain doesn't pick willy-nilly. Unless you part ways hating each other for some… — Helen Fisher
When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking… — Helen Fisher
You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood… — Helen Fisher
On overnight flights, I have trained myself to get to sleep almost instantly after takeoff. I always listen to the same audiobook on my iPod… — Margaret Heffernan
Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed… — Hanna Rosin
Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just… — Douglas Rushkoff
Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of… — Douglas Rushkoff

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