Birth Quote by Daniel Goleman

Your brain is not formed when you're born, you have to build your brain.

— Jean Berko Gleason

The brain alone is intricate beyond mapping, powerful beyond imitation, rich in diversity, self-protecting, and self-renewing. The secret is that it is grown, not…

— Fred Brooks

The cognitive functioning of a human brain depends on a delicate orchestration of many factors, especially during the critical stages of embryo development-and it…

— Nick Bostrom

We humans undergo two major growth spurts: one during infancy and another from eleven to twelve until fifteen or sixteen--pubescence. Between the two is…

— Louise J. Kaplan

“Our body completes its growth by 21 years. The only factors then to grow are the mind and the intelligence, which constitute the inner personality.”

— Rajendra B. Aklekar

At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90…

— Zeresenay Alemseged

From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume

— Eric Jensen

“Understand that bodies are shaped by culture from the very get-go,” explains Fausto-Sterling. “If you neglect a child at birth, their brain stops developing…

— Angela Saini

The body is most fully developed [at] from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

— Aristotle

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

— Paulo Freire

When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.

— Richard Dawkins

“the fetal brain generates far more neurons than are found in the adult.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky