Private life Quote by David Bodanis

“the brain's business is not to give us an accurate or objective view of the world, but to give us a useful view -…

— Robin Fox

People envision [looking inside the brain] as being very difficult. You had to take a spaceship, shrink it down, inject it into the bloodstream.

— Christopher deCharms

“Consciousness is our gateway to experience: It enables us to recognize Van Gogh’s starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven’s Fifth, and stand in awe…

— Daniel Bor

“A Natural History of the Senses, author Diane Ackerman says, “The brain is a good stagehand. It gets on with its work while we’re…

— Gavin de Becker

“When you just look without creating thoughts, your consciousness is effortlessly aware of, and fully comprehends, all that it sees. Consciousness”

— Michael A. Singer

“Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.”

— Arshile Gorky

I became really interested in the study of consciousness.

— Alex Grey

“It would be more accurate to say that we see with our brain rather than with our eyes. However, the more interesting point is…

— George Kohlrieser

“Everything—the uncanny clarity of my vision, the clearness of my thoughts as pure conceptual flow—suggested higher, not lower, brain functioning.”

— Eben Alexander

Everything begins in the mind. If you want to see clearly, you need clear vision.

— Swami Satchidananda

“The brain is an incredible multitasker. At the same time that it's piercing itself with superheated needles of anguish, it's ruthlessly making plans, contingencies,…

— Leah Raeder

Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized over the…

— Dale Purves