Brain Quotes

4501 Brain quotes by 2589 unique authors

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 it’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
We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. … Our… — Murray Bookchin
Me having no education. I had to use my brains. — Bill Shankly
If evolution is true, you could not know that it’s true because your brain is nothing but chemicals. Think about that. — Kent Hovind
Running is for animals. You need a brain and a ball for football. — Louis van Gaal
Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it. — Wilder Penfield
Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed. — Wilder Penfield
The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined. — Unknown Author
It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The… — Fred Hoyle
Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic… — Siri Hustvedt
How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness? — David Chalmers
The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that when that primary… — Douglas Hofstadter
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert. — B.K.S. Iyengar
What we found was that rather than being haphazardly arranged or independent pathways, we find that all of the pathways of the brain taken together… — Ray Kurzweil
Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in… — Ray Kurzweil
As you go out to the 2040s, now the bulk of our thinking is out in the cloud. The biological portion of our brain didn't… — Ray Kurzweil

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