Brain Quote by Patricia Churchland Download Open image “Brains are not magical; they are causal machines.” — Patricia Churchland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brain Computers Machines
For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even to a scientist, the… — William Grey Walter Copy Share Image
The brain is the great factory of thought. To it are directed all the forces of nature, forces which, for thousands of years, have… — Leonardo Bianchi Copy Share Image
Studies of decision-making in the monkey, where activity of single neurons in parietal cortex is recorded, you can see a lot about the time-accuracy… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
It is important to understand that while oxytocin may be the hub of the evolution of the social brain in mammals, it is part… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years. — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
Remember, in the heyday of vitalism, people said that when all the data are in about cells and how they work, we will still… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function. — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
Early studies of sleep and dreaming were crucially dependent on waking subjects up during sleep to find out whether they are dreaming or not.… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive. — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
I used to suspect that in the brain, time is its own representation. I now think the problem is so much more complicated. Initially… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
I am less attracted to guesses about what cannot be done, than about making progress on a problem. — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
Analyzing a concept can (perhaps) tell you what the concept means (at least means to some philosophers), but it does not tell you anything… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant. — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
I made the assumption, wrong of course, that conceptual analysis was a brief preliminary on the road to finding out about the nature of… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
down with ought with because with every brain that thinks it thinks nor dares to feel. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that… — Thomas Willis Copy Share Image
I prefer the word 'musician.' I'm a musician and a composer. I have a problem with the word 'artist.' I don't know if it's… — Stromae Copy Share Image
Thinking of sex provides enough mental stimulation to reduce risk of diseases that damage the brain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it takes a lot… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
Without illusions. I love you because you are fallible and because your poor misguided testosterone-corrupted brain has you doing cartwheels trying not to be.… — Cindy Gerard Copy Share Image
being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong… — Susan Boyle Copy Share Image
