Human Brain Quotes

153 quotes by 129 authors

The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls. The more than… — Unknown Author
The human brain is the most complex mass of protoplasm on earth-perhaps even in our galaxy. — Marian Diamond
The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. Although… — Gerald Fischbach
The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how. — Michael Gazzaniga
The human brain is estimated to have about a hundred billion nerve cells, two million miles of axons, and a million billion synapses, making it… — Tim Green
In a structure as complex as the human brain a multitude of things can go wrong. The wonder is that for most people the brain… — Unknown Author
With its hundred billion nerve cells, with their hundred trillion interconnections, the human brain is the most complex phenomenon in the known universe - always,… — Steven Rose
It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach to grammar, pioneered… — Niels Kaj Jerne
One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before the study of… — Ivan Pavlov
It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of young people and the sort… — Jane Goodall
Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution — Steven Pinker
It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe — Richard Dawkins
An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple. — Jay Abraham
To be able to rise from the earth; to be able, from a station in outer space, to see the relationship of the planet earth… — Norman Cousins
Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe. — Kurt Vonnegut
A software system is transparent when you can look at it and immediately see what is going on. It is simple when what is going… — Eric S. Raymond
After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself. — Pamela Stephenson
Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of… — David Eagleman
It is unmatched in its ability to think, to communicate, and to reason. Most striking of all, it has a unique awareness of its identity… — Unknown Author
Remember that feelings or emotions emanate from the more ancient, less evolved, lower part of the human brain, while thoughts are a product of our… — Laura Schlessinger

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