Brain Quote by Deane Juhan

“Long since, the standard way of understanding surface has been as an abstract and undifferentiated plane that functions above all to veil or delimit…

— Sylvia Lavin

Whenever we think of the body as a vessel for artistic ideas, we somehow always focus on the surface of the body. But the…

— Valie Export

“The cerebral cortex, the outer ‘skin’ of the brain, contains as many as ten billion neurons. This complexity is daunting. Yet it is out…

— James David Lewis-Williams

The hand is the visible part of the brain.

— Immanuel Kant

While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

— Aristotle

Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we have evolved a special physical route along which…

— Leonard Mlodinow

“Indeed, very few people are aware that in each of our fingers, located somewhere between the first phalange, the mesophalange, and the metaphalange, there…

— José Saramago

To touch the surface is to stir the depths.

— Deane Juhan

Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think…

— Tim Birkhead

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

— Bill Viola

The body is the outermost layer of the mind.

— David Mitchell

Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.

— R. Buckminster Fuller