Ancient Quote by Jaak Panksepp

Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.

— Greg McKeown

If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills needed in…

— Susanna Miller

For humans and animals alike, truly vigorous, wholehearted, spontaneous play is something of a biological frill.

— Robin Marantz Henig

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them…

— Johan Huizinga

“Play is our brain's favorite way of learning”

— Diane Ackerman

Studies of social games, puzzle games, and brain-training games have shown they have little effect on the brain despite often being marketed as improving…

— Daphne Bavelier

Play seems to be one of the first activities inhibited by the presence of an observer until a group becomes well habituated. For this…

— Dian Fossey

Chess is a natural cerebral high.

— Walter Browne

Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject…

— Brian Sutton-Smith

Active play contributes to strong bones and adventurous play is vital for mental and emotional development.

— Michaela Strachan

Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way for restless…

— Robin Marantz Henig

Our ancestors used to play with snakes, we play with mouse.

— Narendra Modi