Brain Quote by Dana Gould

Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely…

— Frans de Waal

“an octopus may have half a billion nerve cells distributed between its brain and its “arms” (a mouse, by comparison, has only 75 to…

— Oliver Sacks

“The bliss of stroking an octopus’s head is difficult to convey to most people, even to animal lovers.”

— Sy Montgomery

“The hatchlings of most deep-sea octopus species develop directly, without passing through a larval stage.”

— Richard Ellis

“Octopuses and their relatives have what Woods Hole researcher Roger Hanlon calls electric skin. For its color palette, the octopus uses three layers of…

— Sy Montgomery

“For an octopus, its arms are partly self”

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

“In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing?”

— Thomas Pynchon

Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.

— Charles Fort

If I was an octopus, I would check my emails while I feed myself while I pick my nose while I masturbate while I…

— Nikhil Saluja

I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot…

— Mira Grant

When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of…

— Ben Lerner

The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.

— Rebecca West