Brain Quote by Steven Pinker Download Open image “We can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision.” — Steven Pinker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brain Events Exquisite Precision Shapes Vocabulary
What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time. — David Eagleman 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
Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale. — Tan Le Copy Share Image
The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos. — Owen Gingerich Copy Share Image
A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history. — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The brain is the most effective algorithmic compressor of information that we have so far encountered in Nature. It reduces complex sequences of sense… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Consistent style prevents presentation from getting in the way of content. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I've never argued that humans are massively hot-wired. What I was trying to point out was that you can't understand how we learn unless… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The biblical story of the binding of Isaac shows that human sacrifice was far from unthinkable in the 1st millennium BCE. The Israelites boasted… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers priorities for educational policy: to… — Steven Pinker 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
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
The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
