Top 1200 Human Brain Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe

I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no precedent for human heads on tables or in roasting pans or anywhere other than on top of a human bodies, and so I think it has chosen to interpret the sight in a more comforting manner. - Here we are at the rubber mask factory. Look at the nice men and woman working on the masks.

The world is endless, the universe inexhaustible, and the human brain will never be threatened with unemployment.

I have sympathy for any human being that's driven by their limbic part of their brain. We all know that exists in a person.

I'm an advocate for whole brain thinking. I'm not an advocate for the right brain or the left brain.

Human beings really think about relativity. That's part of what the brain does.

The human brain has an amazing ability for pattern recognition, sometimes even better than a computer.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.

With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.

Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence - in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement - wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league.

When a person has access to both the intuitive, creative and visual right brain, and the analytical, logical, verbal left brain, then the whole brain is working...And this tool is best suited to the reality of what life is, because life is not just logical-it is also emotional.

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

It would be ill-advised to compare war and a sport, but I don't think the brain knows the difference. With post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries in blasts with veterans, we see a very similar and somewhat unique issue with repetitive brain injuries in football.

LSD was not a pharmacological agent generating exotic experiences by its interaction with the neurophysiological processes in the brain. This remarkable substance was clearly an unspecific catalyst of the deep dynamics of the human psyche. The experiences induced by it were not neurochemical artifacts, symptoms of a toxic psychosis as mainstream psychiatrists called it, but genuine manifestations of the human psyche itself.

Now I realize, and I acknowledge, that the right brain/left brain distinction is a tremendous oversimplification. We don't come neatly divided into right and left hemispheres, but the fact is that the two hemispheres of the brain do specialize in certain functions.

Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.

The study of the human brain and its disease remains one of the greatest scientific and philosophical challenges ever undertaken.

I'm tough, I'm pushy, I'm really loud. I used to spend a lot of time thinking about it. But we only have so much brain capacity, so if I'm spending part of my brain thinking about how I'm acting, A, I'm not spending all of my brain doing, and B, I'm not actually in that moment.

The structure of the human brain is enormously complex. It contains about 10 billion nerve cells (neurons), which are interlinked in a vast network through 1,000 billion junctions (synapses). The whole brain can be divided into subsections, or sub-networks, which communicate with each other in a network fashion. All this results in intricate patterns of intertwined webs, networks of nesting within larger networks.

The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.

The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.

The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos.

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.

Your brain is always eavesdropping on your thoughts. As it listens, it leans. If you teach it about limitation, your brain will become limited...Teach your brain to be unlimited.

Essentially, there's a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned to have more managerial and direct creative access to their brains, they have also developed matrices or networks of people that communicate electronically. There are direct brain/computer link-ups. You can just jack yourself in and pilot your brain around in cyberspace-electronic space.

To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is till wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolutely follows the best.

Many people prefer a view of human nature that includes a true side and a false side - in other words, humans have a single genuine aim and the rest is decoration, evasion, or cover-up. That's intuitive, but it's incomplete. A study of the brain necessitates a more nuanced view of human nature.

Let me put it this way: I don't plan to retire. What would I do, become a brain surgeon? I mean, a brain surgeon can retire and write novels, but a novelist can't retire and do brain surgery - or at least he better not.

To be able to rise from the earth; to be able, from a station in outer space, to see the relationship of the planet earth to other planets; to be able to contemplate the billions of factors in precise and beautiful combination that make human existence possible; to be able to dwell on an encounter of the human brain and spirit with the universe

I don't jerk off because I'm horny. I'm sort of half-chick. It's like District 9. I can fire alien weapons. I can insert a tampon. No, I do it because I want to take a brain bath. It's like a hot whirlpool for my brain, in a brain space that is 100 percent agreeable with itself.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.

Experiments on split-brain patients reveal how readily the left brain interpreter can make up stories and beliefs. In one experiment, for example, when the word walk was presented only to the right side of a patient's brain, he got up and started walking. When he was asked why he did this, the left brain (where language is stored and where the word walk was not presented) quickly created a reason for the action: I wanted to go get a Coke.

God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.

Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard...Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electromagnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill...At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.

With brain hacking experiments, I've hacked into Morgan Freeman's brain. He was the most famous and the most nerve wracking because I got really awestruck when I met him, and the moment I was introduced to him, he challenged me there and then to hack his brain.

The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.

The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.

What people don't realize is the human body and the brain are so well designed to do - by millions of years of evolution - what we do.

Technology's allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does.

I can't experience my brain because I'm inside of it. If you're imaging your brain, you can also find scary things. As one ages, your brain shrinks. And how much it shrinks, and where it shrinks, relates to conditions like Alzheimer's and dementia.

The human brain is the most complex mass of protoplasm on earth-perhaps even in our galaxy.

The human brain is the only object in the known universe that can predict its own future and tell its on fortune. The fact that we can make disastrous decisions even as we foresee their consequences is the great, unsolved mystery of human behavior. When you hold your fate in your hands, why would you ever make a fist?

Replacing human vision is more than just a tool: we need to understand how that affects the brain.

Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought.

The brain is conceded to be the master organ of the body, the regulator of life, the source of human progress.

Energy experts have announced the development of a new fuel made from human brain tissue. It's called assohol.

Given that the dreaming brain must perform these remarkable contortions - creating a world, living in it, responding to it, and then carefully blocking all the responses in a manner that does not cross the threshold of awareness - it is no wonder that this dreaming brain seems to be more active than the waking brain.

The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined.