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184 Our Brains quotes by 161 unique authors
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By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
— Richard Dawkins
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We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our…
— Richard Dawkins
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Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.
— Joshua Foer
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We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.
— Mohsin Hamid
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Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops here or there…
— Mohsin Hamid
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Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as…
— Stephen Hawking
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Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our…
— Charlie Kaufman
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There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.
— John Lydon
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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
— Leo Rosten
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We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.
— Michael Shermer
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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
— Paul Simon
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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a…
— Lewis Thomas
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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould…
— Virginia Woolf
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Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed…
— Hanna Rosin
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Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order…
— Louise Erdrich
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By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl Sagan's book The…
— Richard Dawkins
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Our riches, being in our brains, die with us... Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won't need them anyway.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you’re doing that…
— Scott Adams
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Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.
— Richard Baxter
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God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book…
— Corrie Ten Boom
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All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out.
— Richard Kadrey
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Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts, Teach us something please, Whether we be old and bald, Or young with scabby knees, Our heads could do with…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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What do you know about women?" They smell nice, they don't like to be told they can't do something, and, when they're naked, they hold…
— Katie MacAlister
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