A Quote by Marvin Minsky

Minds are simply what brains do.

Marvin Minsky

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Marvin Minsky
American - Scientist
August 9, 1927 - January 24, 2016

If you see voters as rational, you'll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational. Our brains simply evolved to keep us alive. Brains did not evolve to give us truth. Brains merely give us movies in our minds that keeps us sane and motivated. But none of it is rational or true, except maybe sometimes by coincidence.

Scott Adams

If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.

C. S. Lewis

Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.

Elliot W. Eisner

The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the 'evolution' of brains, if understood, would be simply the account of how the atoms came to be so caught and jammed.

William James

The captains of industry are not hunting money. America is heavy with it. They are seeking brains - specialized brains - and faithful, loyal service. Brains are needed to carry out the plans of those who furnish the capital.

Charles M. Schwab

Everywhere we see shadowy minds, cloudy brains! World needs more light of wisdom!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.

Julian Barbour

From study of known normal brains we have learned that there is a certain range of variation. No two brains are exactly alike, and the greatest source of error in the assertions of Benedict and Lombroso has been the finding of this or that variation in a criminal's brains, and maintaining such to be characteristic of the 'criminal constitution,' unmindful of the fact that like variations of structure may and do exist in the brains of normal, moral persons.

Edward Anthony Spitzka

He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package.

Eloisa James

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.

Guy de Maupassant

We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.

Euripides

They always try to play with our minds. But that won't work with our club. We've got 20 guys without brains.

Bobby Clarke

In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

Antonio Damasio

We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others.