Brain Quote by David Eagleman

There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ' holistic ' views as some sort of cure-all... Reductionism implies attention to a lower…

— Francisco Varela

When we talk about the brain, it is anything but unidimensional or simplistic or reductionistic.

— Thomas R. Insel

The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state. There is a higher state of…

— Swami Vivekananda

The brain has not explained the mind fully.

— Wilder Penfield

One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

— Friedrich Engels

My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and…

— Carl Sagan

Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a…

— Alison Gopnik

Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the…

— David Chalmers

I’ve concluded, after many years, that my mind works by process of elimination. Problem is, it hasn’t eliminated anything yet.

— Robert Breault

I think of the brain as a computational device: It has a bunch of little components that perform calculations on some small aspect of…

— Daniel Levitin

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

— Aesop

“It is because we are through and through compounded of relationships with the world that for us the only way to become aware of…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty