Brain Quote by I. J. Good

Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.

— Pierre de Coubertin

Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult: that of…

— Pierre de Coubertin

“We are made up of an entire parliament of pieces and parts and subsystems. Beyond a collection of local expert systems, we are collections…

— David Eagleman

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.

— Robert C. Solomon

“profoundly complex systems”

— William Brinkley

“When we gaze at the world, we do not fathom the many layers of apparatus that underlie our unified visual experience, until neurological disease…

— Steven Pinker

“I think brains might be machines that turn information into feelings and feelings back into decisions and I've discovered that my machine has been…

— Catherine Lacey

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

— Thomas R. Insel

“There is, then, an analogy–and perhaps more than mere analogy–between central vision and conscious, one-at-a-time thinking, and between peripheral vision and the rather mysterious…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“The brain is... an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern, though never an abiding one.”

— Anonymous

Our problem today is, the society in which we live in suffer from realising that we underestimate our own brain power and overestimate other…

— Heleina Cowan

This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the problem before…

— Charles Scott Sherrington