Accidents Quote by Stanislaw Ulam

“As you read this, in the five cups of tofu-like tissue inside your head, nested amid a trillion support cells, 80 to 100 billion…

— Rick Hanson

The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart…

— Francis Collins

We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain.

— Norman Doidge

“our primate ancestors was the development of a larger cerebral cortex as well as the development of increased volume of gray-matter tissue in certain…

— Ray Kurzweil

The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take…

— Norman Doidge

“There are an estimated 100 billion neurons residing inside the skull with an exponential amount of neural connections”

— Michio Kaku

The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,.

— Howard Hughes

The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done by our…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“We walk through another part of the building. While we wait for an elevator, Dr. Kenyon unfolds a dinner-size napkin and holds it up…

— Annie Jacobsen

Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a…

— Alison Gopnik

“In the past two decades, research has revealed that the brain has a surprising level of neuroplasticity, meaning an ability to change its structures…

— Catherine M. Pittman