Begins Quote by Simon McBurney

At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down.

— Lauren Oliver

The brain is a mystery; it has been and still will be. How does the brain produce thoughts? That is the central question and…

— Charles Scott Sherrington

Neuroscience is exciting. Understanding how thoughts work, how connections are made, how the memory works, how we process information, how information is stored -…

— Lisa Randall

We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and it seems like there…

— Norman Doidge

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

— Daniel Tammet

We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating - lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can show us…

— Eckhart Tolle

Most of the circuits in our brains run on automatic. The more you think a thought, the more energy goes into that circuit. Eventually…

— Jill Bolte Taylor

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

— David Eagleman

During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give…

— Fritjof Capra

You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just…

— Louise Erdrich

“Something changes in the brain when you know surviving the next few minutes is determined solely by your ability to go unnoticed.”

— RaeLynn Fry

The peculiar fascination of the brain lies in the fact that there is probably no other object of scientific enquiry about which we know…

— Gerd Sommerhoff