Brain Quote by Siri Hustvedt

We live in a culture that is much happier talking about organic brain disease than about psychic illness because the former suggests that something…

— Siri Hustvedt

I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his…

— Charles Kingsley

“He dealt every day with people who believed they weren’t happy and who further believed that by committing some crime—theft, murder, deceit, blackmail, even…

— Donna Leon

If you look at the works psychologists have done about individual reports of wellbeing, what happens is that if you're poor, you are not…

— Dale Jamieson

“The Resurrected/Glorified, God-man Jesus and the angelic beings obviously have knowledge with which to think/reason/articulate/communicate. In my opinion, it seems to me there is…

— R. Alan Woods

“The human brain, it has been said, is the most complexly organised structure in the universe and to appreciate this you just have to…

— V.S. Ramachandran

“If music serves to convey feelings through the interaction of physical gestures and sound, the musician needs his brain state to match the emotional…

— Daniel J. Levitin

Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical glance, the…

— Franz Joseph Gall

“His brain was in one of those states that are both violent and yet frighteningly calm, in which thought runs so deep it blots…

— Victor Hugo

Math problems: Jane bought 72 sofas...WHO THE HELL WOULD BUY 72 SOFAS?!

— Anonymous

Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.

— Carl Pomerance

There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss