Architecture Quote by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls…

— Marvin Dunnette

The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our…

— Eric Kandel

The brain was designed by evolution, so each part of it is optimized for what it does, and it's incredibly, incredibly complex.

— Paul Allen

The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our…

— Eric Kandel

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship…

— Tony Hoare

“Evolutionary psychologists suggest that, just as the eye is an evolved organ for seeing, and the wing an evolved organ for flying, so the…

— Richard Dawkins

Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world.

— David Eagleman

Our retinas and brains have been wired by a hundred million years of evolution to find outlines in a visually complex landscape. This helps…

— Seth Shostak

The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function.

— Richard Restak

The brain appears to have been designed to solve problems related to surviving in an outdoor setting, in unstable meteorological conditions, and to do…

— John Medina

In any complex organism, brain formation and function must be controlled in part by genes.

— Jeffrey C. Hall

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.

— Robert C. Solomon