Human Brain Quotes
153 quotes by 129 authors
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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
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The human brain is the most complex mass of protoplasm on earth-perhaps even in our galaxy.
— Marian Diamond
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution
— Steven Pinker
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It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe
— Richard Dawkins
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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
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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
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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
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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
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After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
— Pamela Stephenson
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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
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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
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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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