Brains Quotes

985 Brains quotes by 742 unique authors

... the general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither yet any certain… — John Knox
Children who plan their own schedules and evaluate their own work build up their brains and learn to take more responsibility. — Bruce Feiler
My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making what he should have. He had… — Unknown Author
Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains… — Antonio Damasio
You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains? — Shawn Achor
My first summer in college I worked in a fruit fly lab where I had two jobs: dissect the fruit fly larvae brains and incinerate… — Emily Oster
Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse… — Frans de Waal
Some brains are easy to hack into, and other brains are nearly impossible to hack into because they are so complex. — Keith Barry
We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best… — Mark Pagel
We cannot even predict what kinds of emergent properties would appear when animals begin interacting as part of a brain-net. In theory, you could imagine… — Miguel Nicolelis
My biggest turn-on has to be brains, intelligence. — Liz Vassey
When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or the State House… — John Williams
I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself. — Jim Goldberg
Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it... every step of the way is mind over matter... We override our brains… — Deepak Chopra
Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as… — Alison Gopnik
Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different… — Alison Gopnik
Our ancestors relied upon their advanced brains to survive during times of food shortage, and fortunately, the human brain is able to utilize body fat… — David Perlmutter
Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are… — P.J. O'Rourke
Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains… — Clive Thompson
Why did humans lose their body hair? Why did they start walking on their hind legs? Why did they develop big brains? I think that… — Richard Dawkins
When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge. — Richard Dawkins
Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities. — Robert Kiyosaki
There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human… — Stephen Hawking
We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human… — Stephen Hawking
We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day… — Laurie Colwin

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