Best Organ Quotes
316 Organ quotes by 261 unique authors
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In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and…
— Susan Blackmore
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The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions.
— Eric Kandel
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Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'?
— Unknown Author
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The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.
— Wilder Penfield
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The brain is not, like the liver, heart and other internal organs, capable from the moment of birth of all the functions which it ever…
— Unknown Author
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The brain, to be sure, is indeed the physical embodiment of the mind, the organ through which the mind finds expression and through which it…
— Unknown Author
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There are those among us who would have us say that the mysteries of the brain are completely solved and little needs to be added…
— Nicolas Steno
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Behavior is ultimately the product of the brain, the most mysterious organ of them all.
— Ian Tattersall
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By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even to a scientist, the organ…
— Unknown Author
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In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind the evidence that…
— John Zachary Young
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It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must be improved in…
— Joseph Murray
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O most sacred, most loving heart of Jesus, thou art concealed in the Holy Eucharist, and thou beatest for us still.... Thou art the heart…
— John Henry Newman
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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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The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an…
— Frederick Soddy
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't…
— Kate Clinton
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Our main reproductive organ is our brain.
— Molly Kelly
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
— Eduard Hanslick
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Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the…
— Hermann Weyl
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I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to…
— Dave Barry
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The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without…
— Louis Agassiz
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A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.
— Herbert Spencer
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Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act of the Creative Imagination. ... For prayer is not a request for something: it is the expression…
— Henry Corbin
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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than the…
— Kenny Smith
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Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by…
— Thomas Carlyle
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